Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boiled politics and the contracting business in San Francisco and Chicago, has endeared himself to all U. S. sailors by years of pounding the table for more guns, more cruisers, more Navy. In the coming session he will pound behind the scenes. The cruiser bill passed the House last spring. Battling Britten will urge it through the Senate...
Acquitted, last spring, of contempt, Col. Stewart went on trial for perjury last month. Last week, again, he was acquitted, or at least "aquibbled." Conducted by "million-dollar" counsel (small, snappy, whitehaired Lawyer Frank J. Hogan), the Stewart defense succeeded in shifting the crux of the case from the honesty of Col. Stewart's double interpretation of the verb, "to receive," to the legality of the Senators' second questioning of Col. Stewart. Chairman of the Public Lands Committee at the time of the second Stewart hearing was boyish, officious, inexperienced Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota...
Still more hopeful, a new State's attorney was getting ready to enter office in Cook County, Judge John A. Swanson. Robert E. Crowe, the Republican incumbent beaten by Swanson in the primary last spring, is the political "pardner" of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Crowe tried to "knife" Judge Swanson in last month's election and "throw" the office to the Democratic candidate. Many another Republican lost out but Judge Swanson prevailed and last week was preparing to rake out Crowe's politico-criminal mess. Instruments ready at hand were some able assistants of Special...
...first lectures ever given by the Harvard Medical School were delivered in Holden Chapel, and the first degrees in Medicine were awarded in 1788 it is shown in the article on the Medical School to appear next spring in the sixth issue of the University Guide. In the article is shown the growth of this department of the University a growth analogous to that characteristic of most of the other departments graduate and professional schools of Harvard...
...Spring of 1902 the necessary subscriptions to insure the $5,000,000 required to purchase the land and erect the buildings of the School had been secured J. P. Morgan '89 gave over a million dollars for the erection of three of the five buildings as a memorial to his father once a merchant of Boston; John D. Rockefeller gave a million dollars which forms part of the Permanent endowment; Mrs. Collis P. Huntington of New York and David Sears of Boston each gave a memorial building for laboratory uses...