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...elected county prosecutor and, when the Kansans denied themselves alcohol, he had to close up the Topeka saloons. His saloon-closing performance sent him to the Legislature. Thence he reached Congress, in 1893. He was a House member for 14 years, a Senator for three six-year terms thereafter...
Carpenters Back. The outstanding accomplishment of the convention, in its leaders' eyes, was persuading the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners to rejoin, after a six-year absence, the A. F. of L.'s building trades department...
Untill the victory of three weeks ago, the Holy Cross baseball team had held a six-year spell over the University diamond outfits, triumphing in every game, and scoring 50 runs against 14 for the Crimson during that period. In the last game. Harvard knocked Davidson and fons, the two leading right-handers of the Worcester nine, off the mound. The Crudaders' two runs were both scored by Harrell, their shortstop, who hit a home run on the first ball pitched in the game, and who drove out a triple in the sixth, on which W. B. Jones '28 made...
...President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America began a six-year term which, largely through the activities of one Ulysses Simpson Grant he was never destined to complete...
...white pages of World's Work (monthly) word followed word with seemingly unimpeachable logic. Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington correspondents, wrote as he had written many times before. Genially, understandably, he eulogized the six-year record of keen-minded Andrew Mellon as Secretary of the Treasury, explained how he had reduced the national debt between Aug. 31, 1919, and Dec. 31, 1926, from 26.6 billion dollars to 19.1 billions...