Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impressive result of one such meeting was displayed, last week, in Manhattan?a five-ton marble statue of the late Senator Robert Marion La Follette by Sculptor Jo Davidson. The work was commissioned by the State of Wisconsin, and will shortly be placed in Statuary Hall at the Capitol, Washington, whither each State may send the images of its two most distinguished citizens after they have died.* Than the late, great La Follette, no noble Roman ever had a greater passion for justice or a greater vigor in its pur suit. His outward aspect, the material of sculpture, mirrored...
...when Lawyer Hughes was 42, that prestige and public confidence began to attach themselves to his labors in great quantity. Two state investigations, following each other in quick succession, provided the springboard for his leap into general esteem. To State Senator Frederick C. Stevens of New York he owed his appointment as counsel to the legislative committee investigating the cost of gas. The gas companies had fixed it at $1 per null cubic feet, declared the figure could not be slashed. Counsel Hughes proved that 80¢ was ample. The reports and bills he drafted were upheld by the courts...
Bank failures in the U. S. were almost 50% less prevalent in 1928 than in 1927, reported the American Bankers' Association. In 1928-484 failures; in 1927 there were 831 banks closed. The improvement was general throughout the country. Nebraska was the only State reporting a marked increase (23 to 48) in failures. Best records were made by Georgia (90 in 1927, 8 in 1928); Michigan (from 22 to 6); South Carolina (from 51 to 12). Maryland had only one bank failure, the first in four years...
...Iselin '29, captain of the University squash team, and seeded first in the state tournament, went down to a decisive defeat in the semi-final round before the sizzling shots of T. E. Jansen '26, seeded third, on the University squash courts Saturday afternoon. Iselin, who was generally favored to win the tourney, was entirely unable to cope with Jansen's brilliant play and trailed the victor throughout the three games necessary...
University teams B and C defeated their respective opponents, the Walkover Club and Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard Freshman lost to Lincoln's Inn Society in the regular weekly matches of the state inter-club squash racquets tournament on Saturday afternoon. Team B, playing without A. C. Ingraham '31 who performed brilliantly in the state singles tourney until he was forced to withdraw because of a pulled tendon, blanked the Walkever Club racquetmen by a 5 to 0 score...