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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frivolous charges of "A deal, a deal!" announced that he would vote for the New York man. Southern Democrats, with the usual lack of leadership in the Senate, decided for the most part to do the same. Furthermore, the South had been somewhat mollified by the appointment of Richard V. Taylor of Mobile, Ala., to the place of a Commissioner who had suddenly resigned. Mr. Woodlock's appointment was confirmed...
...National Student Federation of America, of which F. V. Field '27 is Harvard's representative on the executive committee, shares the auspices for the project with the American Advisory Committee which numbers among its members, Stephen P. Duggan, President Ada L. Comstock of Radcliffe, President Glenn Frank of Wisconsin University, President Hibben of Princeton, President Garfield of Williams, President MacCracken of Vassar, President Neilson of Smith, Norman Hapgood '90, John F. Moors '83, Fellow of Harvard College, Frank A. Vanderlip and various other educators and public leaders...
...March 8, SCIENCE); a delegation from the American Legion to urge that a military guard be placed over the tomb of the Unknown Soldier to preserve it from desecration (the President asked them to take up the matter with the Secretary of War-it would have his approval); John V. Mahan, National Commander, and a delegation of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War to ask the President to attend their convention in Atlanta next June; Governors Brewster of Maine, Hardy of Florida, Groesbeck of Michigan, "Twenty-four-votes-for-Underwood" Brandon of Alabama, to lunch...
...Eugene V. Debs, several times candidate for President on the Socialist ticket, last week planned to spend two months in Bermuda with his wife. But a doubt crossed his mind. If he went to Bermuda would the immigration authorities allow him to return...
...Crookshank's Mongol in Our Midst, many of the little red books have enjoyed prestige that was largely borrowed. Bertrand Russell wrote a second book (What I Believe), as did Dr. Crookshank (Aesculapius) that stood on independent merits. The feminist controversy between Mrs. Russell and Captain Ludovici (Hypatia v. Lysistrata) was very readable, though biased on both sides. Gerald Heard's Narcissus?An Anatomy of Clothes qualified in its own right. But for the most part it seems as if the Duttons have gone unwisely far afield for writers and subjects, thinning out a superb vintage with hasty and insipid...