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Like Mark Hanna's daughter in Illinois (Mrs. Medill McCormick), William Jennings Bryan's daughter in Florida seemed virtually assured of election to the House. There, the two Daughters would swell the "women's bloc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Little Commoner | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...made a landing at San Diego. Here he was informed of the most extraordinary thing which has happened to him since he landed in Paris. An Amarillo, Tex., newspaper editor, one Gene Howe, son of famed Atchison (Kan.) Daily Globe's Ed Howe, had called Charles A. Lindbergh "swell-headed." Lindbergh said: ". . . if I have the swelled-head my hatter has not noticed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Swell | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...same time with a throw of 138 feet six inches. Alcock came in second with 136 feet six and one-half inches, so that the possibility of taking eight points in the hammer is well established. Third place in this event is an open question, and may also swell the Crimson total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CONCEDED OUTSIDE CHANCE OF VICTORY OVER YALE | 5/18/1928 | See Source »

...victory Kuehn in the high jump and shot put, and Mark Tyson, in the shot, discus, and javelin are counted on to score heavily for Exeter, while the Freshmen are relying on Vernon Munroe '31, A. L. Watkins '31, W. C. Rowe '31, and R C Aldrich '31 to swell the Crimson total in the running events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1931 TRACK TEAM ENGAGES EXETER | 5/12/1928 | See Source »

...readily welcome. It is an amalgam of the accepted romantic and aestheic elements so healthily mixed in an atmosphere so familiarly strange that its reception was easily predictable. With such its attraction, the insinuating suggestion that its peculiar pictorial display, which so readily drew workers, may have helped to swell the tide of favor, can but skirt the vulgar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO SAMARKAND | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

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