Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heading south, last fortnight, President-Reject Alfred Emanuel Smith paused at Savannah, Ga., to slide down a brass pole and thereby amuse southern firemen. Last week at Sarasota, Fla., winter headquarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, he fed loaves of bread to the elephants and said: "Mr. Ringling-John-you have proven yourself a public benefactor of the highest possible type." At Miami Beach, behind a speeding motorcycle escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites...
...Chuckled as the Lady Astor, patrician Virginia-born British M. P., silenced a feminine opponent on the floor of the House with the fine old Southern expletive, "Oh, rats...
...course, Editor High referred to the acerbities which have greeted Bishop Cannon's militant Anti-Saloon League activities (see p. 12) and his leadership of the bitter anti-Smith campaign among Southern Democrats...
...teams, to make the dual Spring trip, was announced last night. This dual trip will extend as far west as Des Moines, Iowa, and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia. Two teams will leave at the same time, one for the western tour, the other for the southern trip. The teams will be chosen during the first week in March by a board of judges which will probably include Celian Ufford '19, instructor in public speaking at Harvard, and E. M. Rowe '27. Both are coaches of the Harvard Debating Council. The judges will choose the team first...
Professor Oakes Ames '98, Chairman of the Council of Botanical Collections and Supervisor of the Biological Laboratory and Botanic Garden in Cuba, will also leave on a southern trip, early next month, when he will visit the Biological Laboratory and Botanic Garden in Cuba. He intends to carry on research work in connection with economic botany and to make a survey of the station with a view to obtaining data for possible alterations to be made in the future...