Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relief fund, began a drive for $5,000,000 more. Pestilence and curtailed water supply threatened crowded refugee camps. Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas asked the Red Cross for enough smallpox and typhoid vaccine to inoculate 25,000 persons. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas suggested a special session of Congress to provide funds for relief work; President Coolidge decided that the emergency would be over before Congress could assemble and make appropriations. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi invited the President to visit the flooded area. The President declined, listening instead to a report by Secretary Hoover, who returned...
...Special Delivery. Eddie Cantor's art is a matter of sustaining punches in the eye, somersaults down elevator shafts, kicks, with perfectly immobile countenance. All this he does and little more in the course of a series of gags illustrating what can happen to a sublimely stupid letter carrier whose flashes of shrewdness are funny when unexpected...
...fact remains that Wagner's amours have only such significance as they have attained in their mutation into art. Louis Barthou's book competently threads together previously known facts, describes with Gallic wit and speed encounters of that nature which Frenchmen, both in funny papers and reality, enjoy with special gusto. But since it tells little that is new and only brushes over the old, it is to be regarded more as a series of entertaining anecdotes than as a consequential item in the lists of Wagnerian biography...
...season as doubtful contenders for second rank honors, the nine men who are slated to open tomorrow's contest have been welded into a diamond unit which might threaten to upset the supremacy of the strongest editorial nines of the Eastern seaboard. Reports from the CRIMSON's special-Princeton correspondent, however, herald the team, which the Prince is sending to Cambridge as one which only a rare combination of air tight pitching and Herculean efforts with the bat can overcome...
...expense of courses of a more fundamental character. Hereafter, our program will be, at least in its design, a program of training for educators. This does not imply that any student will leave us without some training for immediate and effective classroom teaching, administrative work, or other special educational service. It means only that we shall now have the time to arrange a curriculum for every student which shall be both broad and pointed. This has always been the general policy of the School. We have simply come to the point of acknowledging that a single year is not enough...