Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senators-Suspect. There were two men, two charges, two issues. Senators-elect William Scott Vare, portly Pennsylvanian, and Frank Leslie Smith, slim Illinoisian, were charged 1) with using too much money to get nominated, and 2) with using money improperly (in Mr. Vare's case) and accepting money improperly (in Mr. Smith's). The charges stood substantiated by the Senate's own investigating (the famed James Reed) committee. The issues which towered were 1) what right had the Senate to judge a state's representative ? 2) what procedure should the Senate follow...
...dead. People said that the brains of the Anti-Saloon League died with him last September. Whether that is true or not, the League has not been the same since. Last week, when its bigwigs met in Washington, they could scarcely decide whether to continue the Rev. Dr. Francis Scott McBride as Mr. Wheeler's heir to the title of Superintendent or to substitute Dr. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, who for many a year has been the League's business manager and publisher at Prohibition's birthplace in Westerville, Ohio...
...young lady shall devote more than one hour a day to miscellaneous reading. The Atlantic Monthly, Shakespeare, Scott's Works, Robinson Crusoe and other immoral works are strictly prohibited. The Boston Record, Missionary Herald. Doddridge's Rise and Progress and Washington's Farewell Address are earnestly recommended for light reading...
...building of 40 stories. One member sold his seat last week for $10,000, highest sale price since 1919. That year seats were worth $11,100. ¶Again, a buyer for a New York Curb Exchange seat paid a new record price, $65,000. Trader William A. Scott bought it last week. A fortnight ago the record was $45,000 (TIME...
...Scott, a Senior at Amherst College, was chosen as the winner of the Rhodes Scholarship that is awarded annually to a representative of the state of Massachusetts, it was announced last night by W. C. Greene, Chairman of the board of Tutors in the Division of Ancient Languages. Scott comes from Arlington, New Jersey, and is the president of the Phi Beta Kappa Chapter at Amherst, captain of the track team, and is president of the "Masquers", a dramatic organization...