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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chronic organizer, he had propounded an efficient, unified student government, and drafted a constitution. The small campus boiled with political fervor, causing President David Starr Jordan to remark: "I wonder if I'm not presiding over a young Tammany Hall." The two parties were an "aristocratic" fraternity element v. a "barbarian" element led by the constitution-writer's friends. Hoover was reluctant to run for an office himself, but they insisted he was their strongest candidate for the important post of treasurer. Finally he said, "Well, perhaps I can swing it." Swing...
...during two administrations. His popularity tends to transcend partisan politics, from which he has been, until recently, free. Unless the widespread sentiment for him proves academic, he is signally a "people's choice." Business, as distinct from Finance, is on his side because it trusts him as a student of material wellbeing. Labor likes him because he is fair, thorough, gives clear orders. Women trust him because he is a high-minded man whose deeds need no retelling and, from him, get none...
Paul Crippen, engineering student at Northwestern University, has one plane he built himself for $800 and a second he bought second-hand...
Last week, Mr. Ripley's "Believe It or Not" contained an item which caused amazement to many a student of human anatomy. The item: "Marechal de Bas-sompierre poured 13 [pint] bottles of wine into a vase and drank it in one breath-as a toast to the 13 cantons of Switzerland." Mr. Ripley had proof for this statement in French histories, which told how Marechal de Bassompierre, famed convivial, was sent by King Louis of France in 1625 to recruit Swiss guards and gain a pledge of allegiance from the Swiss cantons. Two Manhattan physicians, last week, said...
...Student Nevin fulfilled Pennsylvania University's law school requirements at 18. For ten dreadful, discouraging years he "practiced," until accident confronted him with John Wanamaker, the Founder.*Lawyer Nevin was better at real estate than the Founder himself; when the owner died, Lawyer Nevin was made Vice President of everything, all around. Directorships followed, automatically. Wilful-faced, 200 pound, 6 ft. 2 in., firm chinned, wideshouldered Attorney Nevin became master last week of Wanamaker's interests in the U. S. and the world, to wit: Wanamaker's stores in Philadelphia, New York, Paris, Tokyo; A. T. Stewart...