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Governor Smith took his time replying to this outburst, but another fight sprang up before the week was out. In the Senate, Indiana's Robinson went off on a wide tack to show that five onetime members of President Wilson's cabinet had later entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny. It was the rankest sort of Senatorial innuendo and included the smirking suggestion that Inquisitor Walsh had been an intimate of Doheny's. Stalwart 38-year-old Senator Tydings of Maryland chewed hard on his chewing gum until Senator Robinson sat down. Then he repeated the Harrison performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Sidespouts | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...facts"; by its "generalizations" about the surplus, which it had no accurate means of estimating; by downright errors in its figures. "Such carelessness," said Secretary Mellon, "is perhaps excusable in a general discussion . . . Certainly it is hard to defend in a report which furnishes the basis for an at- tack on official estimates. . . . This is hardly worthy of a businessmen's report." Banker Pierson, unabashed, stuck to his guns. He intimated that the Chamber would reply in detail. He said: "The constituency of the Chamber is a cross section of the country. . . . After all, it is Congress which will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Treasury Retort | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

Captain Pratt will be the first speaker of the rally, and will be introduced by A. H. O'Neil '28 cheer leader. After songs and cheers Coach Horween will speak, while "Tack" Hardwick, whose "indianizing" was famous in the days of C. E. Brickley '15, will be the last speaker to address the mass meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO HOLD RALLY AT UNION THIS EVENING | 11/17/1927 | See Source »

Hardwick is one of the University's outstanding all-round athletes, as he was not only All-American end, but a letter man in baseball and track. Playing with C. E. Brickley '15, "Tack" Hardwick was largely responsible for the 20 to 0, 15 to 5, and 36 to 0 defeats of Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON ALL-AMERICAN END TO ADDRESS FOOTBALL RALLY | 11/15/1927 | See Source »

...drew back his wand with headstrong determination and struck the willow ball. It rose like a golf ball for a midiron over the heads of the players, bounced, bounded through the posts over 100 yards away. Webb scored, Hitchcock scored, Milburn (against whose play at back the British at tack had foamed and fallen like a wave) scored twice; Hitchcock scored, Webb scored twice; Roark scored a second goal for Britain. Webb scored; Pert scored the last stategoal for Britain. Total: U.S. 13, Great Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Meadow Brook | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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