Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cells searched. In one were found draftsman's designs of implements to be used in an escape. In another was discovered a wooden key model from which a duplicate of the keeper's key was to be made. In the power-house was unearthed a tomahawk-shaped utensil for short-circuiting all the lights in the old cellblock. Said Warden Lawes: "This was a scheme for a general jail delivery. . . . If it had succeeded we might have another riot like Dannemora...
...Statute were drawn wholly or in part to protect the U. S. Federal Reserve, which, under Article Twenty, has power to veto any dollar transactions contemplated in any country by the Bank. Getting this clause adopted was the major triumph at Baden-Baden of the two U. S. representatives, short, stocky Jackson Eli Reynolds and lanky, drawling Melvin Alva ("Mel") Traylor, presidents of the First National Banks of New York and Chicago, respectively...
...case was the Attorney General of Ames against the Amesburg Packing Company. The first speaker of the evening, Howard, contended that the maintenance for a short time of a grocery business by a bank is sufficiently within the powers of the bank to allow a contractual recovery by a person furnishing them goods. This was delivered with an extremely clear presentation...
...this time when the chapel plans are still changeable. As potentially Harvard men, the undergraduates should be permitted to have some influence in deciding the many issues which the erection of this building will undoubtedly call up. The Harvard of the present is replete with the mistakes of a short-sighted past, and they indicate forcibly enough that decisions for the future should not be based on sudden conclusions...
Today's practice was devoted to a snappy rehearsal of all offensive formations and to a demonstration of the Harvard attack. The first team had a short defensive dummy scrimmage against the Seconds, who employed the Crimson formations...