Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Behind Candidate Reed is William Randolph Hearst. Behind Candidate Smith is onetime (1915-21) Senator James Duval Phelan, locally no less potent than McAdoo or Hearst but not clearly the Democratic strong-man of California able to combat the other two and confound them by division. The California primary, set for May Day, loomed large and inscrutable...
...date of the Freshman Jubilee has been definitely set for the evening of May 29, it was announced recently by B. H. Ticknor '31, chairman of the committee. The festivities will start at 9 o'clock, when the dancing will get into full swing...
...executive capable of restraining the excesses of Congressmen. The best its proponent can say for it is, "as fair and reasonable as is possible with a bill of this kind," an admission which leaves much free play to imaginations apt in possibilities for graft. Yet with the precedents already set the chances of the President being able to defeat it are very slight. Restraint from interference in the other branches of government is a fine sounding policy for an executive to have, but at times its results seem scarcely worthy...
Although it was originally intended to withhold the names of the Harvard contestants until after the contest, which has been set for Monday, that plan has been reconsidered by those in charge of the competition...
When Nathan and Lewis and Mencken put to sea in their pea-green boat there was room for only three. And so Upton Sinclair was left on the beach while the Great Emancipators set forth for New York or heaven. Boston is near the shore, though, and soon the first literary travelling man found himself in the old Back Bay Station. Ever since the porter dropped his luggage in Copley Square, ever since the moment when the man's eyes flooded as he said: "Home, thank God" there has been a Bostonian flavor, even occasionally a Cantabrigian tang...