Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Co-operative Society has renominated its officers for the posts which they held during the past year. H.S. Thompson '99 again received the nomination for President, and Professor A.W. Scott '09, of the Law, School, for Vice-President, of the Society. Walther Humphreys was nominated for Secretary, and J.L. Taylor G. '11 for Treasurer. D.K. David G. '19 and A. C. Redfield '13, were nominated as Directors to represent Harvard at Large,a and H.S. Ford and Jasper Whiting to serve in a similar capacity for M.I.T., at Large. Of the other Diresrtets, Delmar Leighton '19 was named...
...Huston Thompson, Democrat, who has served on the Federal Trade Commission since 1918, retired last week. President Coolidge is pondering a list of Democrats, from which he will select a successor...
Denial of a new trial was handed down last May. But, eloquent Boston lawyer William G. Thompson, counsel for Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti, was in no mood to toss aside lightly his six years' labor, particularly when he still holds two powerful items of evidence...
...Lawyer Thompson's second item was a broadside against the U. S. Department of Justice. He linked the Sacco and Vanzetti case with the 1920 anti-Red drive of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, produced ex-Government agents who swore that conviction for murder was simply "one way of disposing of them," that there were files of evidence which the Department of Justice refused to reveal. Lawyer Thompson burst ihto flames...
...influence of college education on authorship, I once made up a list of the American authors who had won deserved fame in the hundred years between 1800 and 1900, from Noah Webster to Seton Thompson. I book it from Professor Brander Matthews' chronology of literature. There were 59 authors. Of these 28 went to college, 31 did not. Some of the collegians did not graduate, many of the early ones graduated very young, Emerson, Hawthorne and Motley at 18, Lowell...