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...Claude Pepper, United States Senator" are words that were inscribed in the bark of a tree at Camp Hill, Ala. by Claude Pepper in 1911. He was then ten years old. After nursing his ambition while working as a farm helper and in an Alabama steel mill, stoking furnaces at Alabama University, boning through Harvard Law School where he graduated in 1924 and starting a law practice in Perry, then in Tallahassee, Claude Pepper set out to realize his goal by running for election...
...tree that stands most rooted is the tree least like...
...Harvard Dramatic Club played host yesterday afternoon to the cast of "The Women," current Bostin stage hit, at a tea given in their honor at the Big Tree...
...Seniors assemble in Sever 11 for the "Tree" exercises...
...when 24 brokers got together under a buttonwood tree at what is now 68 Wall Street, a "seat" meant a seat in the trading hall. But as the Exchange expanded, seats became valuable less as certificates of participation in the tangible assets of the Exchange than as indications of the earning power and condition of the market. Seats were first offered for sale in 1868 when membership stood at 500. During the '70s they sold at about $5,000. By 1929 membership was up to the present 1,375, price of a seat reached...