Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moore '29, the University's javelin-throwing ace of this spring's track-team, made a toss of 186 feet to take second in this event...
...extraordinary savoir-faire, and much more civility than many a larger place. Instead of permitting the G. O. P.'s reception to fall into the hands of local jobholders, a representative body of citizens got together last winter and made the plans. Flower-growing was encouraged this spring, to have the city in full bloom. A committee of 1,000 "hosts and hostesses" has been organized, to be stationed at the hotels in relays. Details so small as extra caddies at the golf clubs and the time-saving elimination of soup from table d'hote bills-of-fare...
Among the 64 lady delegates was to be Marion Marjorie (Mrs. Worthington) Scranton, tall; stylish daughter-in-law of the family of the founder of famed Scranton, Pa. Daughter-in-law Scranton was elected to the National Committee this spring, after narrowly escaping defeat. Because she is dashingly attractive ("God's greatest gift to mankind," she was once called in a nominating speech), some of her fellow Pennsylvanians feared she might be too dashing. She probably smokes cigarets and such like, they said. But Andrew W. Mellon approved her and Mrs. Scranton was elected to succeed the late John...
...House let the Senators fight it out, this session, and a long fight it was. California's Johnson introduced the bill in the early Spring. Utah's Smoot aided Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden, first indirectly, then directly, in delaying the debate. Maryland's Bruce and Tydings and Tennessee's McKellar helped the Arizonans too. But it was the orotund Ashurst and the dogged Hayden who, with desks stacked high with time-consuming documents, talked and talked and talked the bill to a standstill last week...
...American Banker calculates that 12 New York banks have this spring increased their capital by $209,390,000. Such advances it calls sensational and points out that banks used to figure that they must have ten times as much in deposits as they have in capital in order to earn proper dividends on that capital. Now the great New York banks average $8 of deposits, the paper says, to $1 of capital. Bankers Trust with $116,000.000 resources (capital, surplus and undivided profits) and $562,000,000 deposits has a 5 to 1 ratio...