Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chronic organizer, he had propounded an efficient, unified student government, and drafted a constitution. The small campus boiled with political fervor, causing President David Starr Jordan to remark: "I wonder if I'm not presiding over a young Tammany Hall." The two parties were an "aristocratic" fraternity element v. a "barbarian" element led by the constitution-writer's friends. Hoover was reluctant to run for an office himself, but they insisted he was their strongest candidate for the important post of treasurer. Finally he said, "Well, perhaps I can swing it." Swing...
...Funds. Treasurer William V. Hodges of the Republican National Committee denied a report that he would retire as a result of the Oil Scandal inquiry (see p. 12). He stated that G. 0. P. funds in 1928 would be plentiful for "a proper campaign"; that the 90,000 contributors of 1924 would this year be swelled...
...aside from branding Mr. Brand and his kind, the episode seemed to have a larger significance not because of its connection with the Presidential campaign, which is not properly a House affair, but because of the murk it dispelled from the whole atmosphere of Congressional farm relief. Burton v. Brand was declared one of the most significant debates this session...
Persons who wondered how George V has managed to acquire so unique a monopoly wondered no longer when they reflected that British telephones are owned and operated by His Majesty's Post Office...
...V. K. Kwong '29, A. L. Raffa ocC., and J. M. Swigert '30 will uphold the affirmative for the University. T. N. Stensland '28 will be an alternate. T. I. Emerson, J. J. B. McCulloch, and W. W. Miller Jr., with W. S. Gaud Jr. as alternate, will make up the Yale team...