Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competition for Second Assistant Manager of Hockey will start this afternoon with a meeting of all candidates at 1.30 o'clock in the Managers Room of the H. A. A. All Sophomores in good standing are eligible to enter the competition, which will be of ten weeks duration...
Senator Elmer Thomas of Okla homa set forth that his state had suffered more property damage than any other from floods; that levee construction would scarcely affect Oklahoma; that the way to start controlling the Mississippi was by impounding its tributaries in reservoirs; that reservoirs affected agriculture and waterpower and should therefore not be a wholly Federal project. Senator Thomas proposed a Federal fund of ten millions, to be administered by the President in national disasters, and gave the Flood Control Committee a bill he had drawn to this effect...
...Scout headquarters at Evanston, Ill., announced the formation of a new troop. The members had long played with each other and with some other boys who would join the troop as soon as they should become 12 years old. Until enough of the playmates to start the troop became 12 years old, all had played under the personal direction of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes...
...Friends. Oilman Sinclair's friends and vice presidents-Henry Mason Day and Sheldon Clark-were "villains" from the start last week. They refused to tell the grand jury anything about the hiring of the Burns detectives. They said they were afraid of incriminating themselves. They were arrested, released on bail.*Their hearings were put off until after Thanksgiving Day, while the government ran out other aspects of the case. "Hero" Burns. Detective William John Burns began last week in a heroic capacity. As soon as he heard that his 16 agents in Washington had been caught sleuthing the Fall...
...University and Freshman polo squads will start their indoor season this afternoon, when the initial practice of the winter will be held at the Commonwealth Armory in Boston at 3 o'clock...