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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begun with the company's books showing more than $40,000,000 in uncompleted work. Unusual seemed the western pilgrimage of such Manhattan Ulen-men as Matthew Chauncey Brush and Harry A. Arthur of American International Corp.; of Bayard F. Pope and George O. Muhlfeld of Stone & Webster; of Gordon H. Balch of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. The trip was also taken by Chicago Ulen-men Marshall Field and Edward P. Currier, of Field, Glore & Co. Whoever is a Ulen director must go to Lebanon for his company's meetings for Mr. Ulen is filled with Lebanon...
Yesterday was Friday the thirteenth. Yesterday the Senate passed the new tariff bill by the slim margin of two votes. That was as expected. The prestige of the United States Senate is not what it used to be. The days of Calhoun and Webster are gone. Unfortunately, however, the power of the Senate remains the same...
University--stroke, Collorodo-Mannsfeld; 7, Erickson; 6, Webster; 5, Johnson; 4, Hallowell; 3, Dickey; 2, Swaim; bow, Sturges; coxswain, Stebbins...
Greatest triumph of Mark Twain's Jim Smiley was the training of a broad jumping frog on which he won many a bet. Chief concern of the story is about a bet Smiley made with a stranger that his frog, "Dan'l Webster," could jump farther than any frog in the country. The frogs were lined up. The stranger's animal gave an ineffectual leap, went a few feet. Came Dan'l's turn to jump. He would not budge. Said Mark Twain...
...English 83 Fogg Large Lect. Rm. Fine Arts 2c, 2d Fogg Museum Fine Arts 15d Fogg Small Lect. Rm. French 6 Prof. Allard, 2 Harvard 6 Mr. Lincoin, 5 Aleta-Greenburg Harvard 3 Hoguet-Wilbor Harvard 5 Prof. Morize, 1 Harvard 2 Mr. Penny, 4 Harvard 6 Dr. Webster. 3 Harvard 5 Geology 14 Sem. Mus. 1 German 28 Sever 29 Greek 2 Sever 29 History 15 Sever 23 History 17b Mallinckrodt MB 9 History 40 Mallinckrodt MB 9 History 68 Mallinckrodt MB 9 History of Science 1 Sever 35 Italian 1 Fogg Large Lect. Rm. Mathematics A.V Sever...