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...events against the Yale Freshmen last year, ran a good race in the Burmey Special 500. This event was won by Allan Helffrich of Penn State. Haggerty ran at Helffrich's shoulder to the last stretch, where he weakened and was passed by Burgess of Georgetown and Robertson of putting B. A. A. putting him just outside the scoring...
...were a young American considering going on the stage I think I should go to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. It is under the supervision of such men as Pinero, Barrie, Shaw and Forbes-Robertson. It is conducted without profit, all money that happens to be made being turned back into the improvement of the school's facilities...
Among the renowned were: Sir Robert Robertson, chief Government chemist of Great Britain; Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell; Sir Max Muspratt, onetime Lord Mayor of Liverpool, foremost British indus- trial engineer; Dr. J. S. McHargue, head of the Kentucky Agricultural Station; T. A. Boyd of the General Motors Corporation; Professor H. Steenbock, chemical research head of the University of Wisconsin; Professor E. C. C. Baly, famed savant of the University of Liverpool. In the chair was Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, President of the Society, a man who invents. He has discovered processes for the separation of copper and cadmium...
...state of Texas had held its second primary. The contestants were Judge Felix D. Robertson (with Klan support) and Miriam A. Ferguson, wife of a Governor who was impeached and removed from office in 1918. She and her husband, who is a hot campaigner, made the Klan the issue-and "Ma" Ferguson won by a margin of about 90,000 votes in a total of almost 800,000. In Texas, a Democratic nominee is considered as good as elected and "Ma" Ferguson is now the Democratic nominee...
...first primary, Judge Robertson ran first. In a close contest, with much counting long-drawn-out, Mrs. Ferguson ran second. In the final primary, she and Judge Robertson will contest, practically, for the Governorship. "Ma" Ferguson, as she is known, is chiefly sitting at home while her husband does most of the campaigning. The inference is that, if she is elected, he will also do most of the governing...