Word: willingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whiteside will be shown over the Harvard naval base, probably this afternoon, by various coaches and undergraduate oarsmen. There will be no formal meeting of crew men, however, inasmuch as the sport will not be formally organized until after the mid-year examination period.
The nation is now looking to you business men to get out of the huddle of 'conferences' and play ball. . . . A goodly number of citizens are inclined to be almost disrespectfully skeptical as to the value of committees and resolutions. . . . They are looking for action. . . . Our Christmas trees...
Such last week was the promotion of Patrick Jay Hurley from the sub-Cabinet to the Cabinet, to replace Iowa's James William Good, deceased. His appointment by President Hoover approximated cabinet recognition for the no longer Solid-South, First Oklahoman to sit in a cabinet, Secretary Hurley is...
¶Spirited was the report of Superintendent of Prisons Sanford Bates who called for the "professionalization of prison management." In ironic statistics he suggested his difficulties: "8,563 parole cases came before the parole board, of which the Superintendent of Prisons was by law a member. If he sat every...
Pests. "In April the Mediterranean fruit fly . . . worst fruit pest known, was found well established in central Florida. . . . Control operations involved 8,100,000 acres, producing 76% of [Florida's] citrus fruits . . . 580,000 boxes of citrus fruit, 3,400 bushels of vegetables, 7,100 bushels of non-citrus...