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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solution of an ancient political problem. To run Republican campaigns "without resorting to empty promises or breaths of scandal" Dr. Work will remove his activities from Washington, population centre of politicians, and occupy rented offices in Denver (his home). From these he is prepared to start the Hoover second-term movement at once...
During the reading period the Radcliffe news and notice organ makes its appearance but weekly, although no official statement has yet been made in regard to a change of name. Nevertheless it is time for the coinage of a new term--"Radcliffe Indifference." It is magnificent, such scornful treatment of a tradition unique among women's college papers. But perhaps the most significant angle to the whole affair is the weight which it lends to the rumour that the scholastic standard of Radcliffe College is being gradually raised to that of her older brother...
After the end of the college term, the plane will be used by graduate flyers until July 1. After that date, the plane will be sold according to the custom of the club, and a new one bought in the fall...
...long (20 years) has Juan Vicente Gomez been Dictator-President of Venezuela that when he positively and repeatedly refused to circumvent his country's constitution "just once more" and accept a fourth term (TIME, May 13), the Venezuelan Congress knew not what to do. Visions of impending revolution, rapine and pillage beset the leaderless legislators. Bundling into motor busses, they rode out again last week from Caracas to Maracay, where the old Dictator, now 72, holds court on his model farm, a Latin-American George Washington at a tropical Mt. Vernon. Seated under his favorite rubber tree, the blue...
...speechmaker was Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, who has been President of .the New York Stock Exchange since 1924-longest term in history...