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First there is Senator George Wharton Pepper, who wants reelection. He is probably worth more than a million. He has the support of Mr. Mellon and Senator Reed. His is day. He is a staunch Administration man. He will have part of the regular Republican vote, part of the highbrow vote...
...training of graduates in research work, Johns Hopkins university returns to the policy of its founders. This hardy step involves the gradual elimination of a thriving college, now having more than a thousand candidates for the A. B. degree, and the sacrifice of the loyalty of many a staunch alumnus...
...point where all the faults of professionalism are extant in its present make-up, and many controversies result. Therefore, if we are to have this commercialization of all sports, why not pay the individual player? After all, he is the one who does the work. I am a staunch supporter of athletes such as Red Grange, who turn professional, and are so widely criticized for their action. It would do no harm to pay the college football player...
...last week French public opinion obviously continued to regard Pére Briand as the one man who can still save the nation by constitutional means. (Although Le Matin, influential organ of famed editor Stephane Lauzanne, called for the dissolution of Parliament and the establishment of a dictatorship by "staunch and courageous men outside of politics...
Violet Heming played the girl with burning emphasis, and Edmund Breese, staunch veteran, the lawyer...