Word: truman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same primary onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper spent $1,804,979, onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, $187,029, vainly seeking the senatorial nomination. The Senate set a moral limit for campaign expenditures in 1922 when it seated Truman Hanly Newberry of Michigan, condemned his political use of $196,000 as excessive...
...TRUMAN R. YOUNG* Washington, D. C. To Senator Smoot, apologies if TIME'S report on his golfing prowess was calumnious. TIME said: "His golf came at the age of 63. Now from 6 to 7 a. m. he plays around on the capital's public links, shooting no in straight, cautious jabs...
...assistant managership goes to Stuyvesant Barry '31, of Orange, N. J., also a graduate of St. Paul's Truman Hicks Brackett '31, of Jamaica Plain, who went to the Browne and Nichols School, will be 1931 cross country manager next fall, and Oliver Lawrence Garrison Elder '31, of St. Elmo, Tenn., an alumnus of St. Mark's School, is the interdormitory manager...
Llewellyn Truman Spencer, assistant professor of psychology at Yale, had sufficient statistics last week apparently to prove that high school graduates were better in intelligence and in studies than were graduates of private preparatory schools. A high school graduate himself and very methodical, he studied the records of Yale undergraduates and learned that in intelligence the high school graduates averaged 71.25, the preparatory school graduates 69.88. In college grades the high school man averaged 73.94, the preparatory school...
...Chauncey Depew by becoming a nonagenarian. Others become somewhat obscure. James Duval Phelan is an opulent San Francisco booster & developer. Magnus Johnson still farms the Minnesota dirt whence sprouted his short fame. Dr. Irwin France of Maryland travels and keeps up his interest in Guernsey cows. Truman Handy Newberry of Michigan keeps up his club memberships, helps direct banks, goes yachting. John Sharp Williams prunes the gardenias and oversees the cotton planting at his old Mississippi home, infrequently sallying forth to signalize some state occasion with his mellifluency...