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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Peek has much in common. He and Reno served on the Committee of 22 in 1926-28. Reno was an ardent supporter of the McNary-Haugen bill, which Peek instigated and lobbied through Congress from Vice President Dawes's anteroom only to have Calvin Coolidge veto it twice. Both Peek and Wallace used to be Republicans. Wallace shifted parties after his father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, President Harding's Secretary of Agriculture, died in 1924, his last days clouded by Secretary of Commerce Hoover's frustration of his plans for farm aid. Peek changed political horses...
...Nomad contributes a study of that very ascetic revolutionary, Sergei Nechayev, who went the gamut from Bakunin to Blanqui, and only twice spoke at a students' meeting. Nomad does not enter what must seem to a casual observer the most fertile of all fields of inquiry, the posterity of Nechayev in Germany. For surely it is from Sergei Nechayev that the pragmatic anarchists of the German left directly derive--the "all Europe must lie in ashes" school that is so fascinating as long as it is numericaly small. His account, however, of Nechayev's trial is a very competent piece...
Half the Varsity squad was excused from practice yesterday afternoon as Coach Eddie Casey gave the regulars a rest after the Dartmouth game last Saturday. The remaining 20 second-stringers who were on the field scrimmaged the Jayvees and succeeded in tallying twice...
...youngsters famed in later years as Princeton's white-polled Keene Fitzpatrick, Harvard's "Pooch" Donovan and "Mike" Murphy of Yale, Hill School and Pennsylvania, all track coaches. Never an amateur, Farrell became so famed a professional that U. S. backers sent him to England where he twice won the rich Sheffield Handicap. The Barnum & Bailey circus signed him on for its "Horse v. Man" race, in which he consistently outran the horse. In 1898 he stumbled over a dog, broke his leg, thereafter coached at Yale, Maine and Ohio State, before settling at Michigan. Once able...
...player of the game; his passing was well-timed, and his shots at the goal netted three of his team's points. One of these tallies, coming in the fourth period, was the result of a penalty kick, the other two were scored in the opening period. Worcester fallied twice in the second period...