Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contact, the industry and ability of the tall, rugged, quiet Senator who sits just in front of Leader Curtis and is his Whip, Washington's Wesley L. Jones, expert on shipping and tending up to business. While a Moses smart-cracks and a Watson frowns or booms into space, while a Borah watches from on high and a Reed haggles and a Fess fusses, Senator Jones keeps his eyes upon and his nose in a mountain of work upon his desk, a mountain that does not consist of mouselike letters to or from constituents but of business of importance...
...college student live? Where should he cast his vote? The answers, of course, vary with the students. An orphan student might have no other legal domicile than his dormitory. Perhaps any student's dormitory rooms are or may be his voting residence, since at most institutions dormitory space is leased for a whole year and most election laws require only a few months' residence...
...printed on them and in order to vote a student need only mark his choice and sign the ballot. These signatures will be kept absolutely confidential, and will be used only in order to prevent duplicate voting and the use of fictitious names. There will also be a blank space in which the name of a candidate not printed on the ballot may be inserted. The three men who will have their names on the pasteboards will be Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith and Norman Thomas...
...hardly worth the trouble to point out that in the short space of one and a half column inches Time, the weekly news magazine, last week made three errors and a revolting inference. One might as well arise and answer the doorbell every time it rings on Halloween. Boys will be boys, and it is well known that many of the editorial board of the news magazine have but recently given up positions on college funny papers. Still glib and sophomoric, they love a good joke even more than most people. In fact they have attracted a circulation of some...
Insolent Clerks Sirs: I am a subscriber since 1923 at Panama, C. Z. I have always abstained from writing letters that more or less annoy you besides taking up space in your glorious magazine. But the culmination of rage sizzles for expression within me. On p. 14, Oct. 1, issue in third column, under caption "Relief" appears: 1,200 tons of food 3,490 tons of misc. supplies 10 days provisions for 100,000 people, etc. All to be distributed to the poor devils, victims of the tremendous hurricane in Porto Rico. I can imagine the anxiety of those people...