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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lusty recrudescence of house spirit par excellence occurred yesterday evening at 7 o'clock, as a joyous band of Deacon musicians cut loose in a riotous jam session in the Kirkland courtyard in celebration of a triple victory in crew, baseball, and tennis, by which the Deacons clinched the Straus interhouse trophy...
...committee, killed by a deal between its friends and foes. That has led to a widespread suspicion that with only 43 legislators now to be persuaded instead of 133, the new Legislature is perhaps even more easily influenced than the old. Governor Cochran's legislative spokesman and the session's outstanding member, 35-year-old Charles Albert Dafoe of Tecumseh (fourth cousin of the Dionne Quintuplets' Doctor) observed last week: "It remains to be seen whether or not a small membership will oe more susceptible to lobbying by special interests. I believe it may be desirable...
...itself a hallowed souvenir—who tries to solve a murder by making the twelve possible suspects hold hands in the dark. Things look bad for Nell O'Neill (Madge Evans) when John Wales (Henry Daniell) is stabbed at the seance, but clear up when, at the next psychic session, Dick Crosby (Thomas Beck) uses lampblack to prove that naughty Dr. Mason (Charles Trowbridge) was not holding hands. The Thirteenth Chair still saves a septuagenarian shiver for the moment when Madame La Grange reveals the murder knife stuck in the ceiling, but as dramaturgy it is more convincingly dead than...
...currently helping Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler in collecting pages for the annals of Van Sweringen railroad financing. Like the newshawks, Mr. Cunningham was free to see what was going on in Alleghany Corp. The next day Messrs. Young, Kolbe & Kirby were due in Washington for a session with Senator Wheeler's investigating committee. Said Mr. Young at his party: "We have nothing to hide...
...died of a stroke in a heroic but futile filibuster against a routine bill to pay foreign bond holders in present devalued currency. It took a good deal of very practical politics, but the appointment assuring Charley Squires' $100,000 was droned out unopposed in the hectic closing session of the Senate...