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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, Sir John Lavery, famed portraitist, reported a successful visit to the U.S. where with businesslike speed and punctuality he had done 15 millionaires. He also reported that prohibition was practically unknown among the rich. Only four abstainers had he met. One was Vance C. Mc-Cormick, onetime (1916) Chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
...There is something very ugly in the possibility of a young man's coming to Cambridge, and while here sleeping and studying alone in a cheerless lodging, eating alone in a dismal restaurant, feeling himself unknown, and so alone in his lectures, his chapel, and his recreations, and not even having the privilege of seeing his administrative officers who know most of his record without haying to explain to them at each visit who he is and what he is, before they can be made to remember that he is a living, hoping, or despairing part of Harvard College...
...Captain Robert E. Bartlett in the ice-ship Karluk in 1913; flew another hour, whizzing 70 miles into a frozen desert never before penetrated by man. When they circled back they had seen no land, but from their lofty lookout they had explored by eye a swath of the unknown perhaps 60 miles wide and 100 long ? 6,000 square miles of "new world." Returning, they had flown far inland before being able to identify land beneath them through the snow. Gauging their position by the shore line, they found Barrow and landed with the snow drifting waisthigh. Blizzards...
...bill. It is a reminder that while the two party system in America is a persistent tradition, it often assumes the properties of a phantom. In yet another light, the recurrence of this sectional line-up, which is essentially an arraignment of farm against town indicates a cleavage not unknown to American politics. In 1800, 1828, and 1896, it culminated in new party alignments. Now with the House falling under urban sway as the population of the cities grows, it would be hardly surprising to see the farmer make the Senate the scene of his last stand in much...
...discretionary power was explained this way: It was desirable to be able to admit high-stand students on certificate, not only from the eastern private schools that point specially for the college board examinations, but from schools in the South and West as well, where the college board is unknown either as a criterion or a cramp...