Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grundy on the Constitution. Recalled to the witness stand was Joseph R. Grundy, archlobbyist from Pennsylvania (TIME, Nov. 4). A minor political war developed between him and committee members (Arkansas' Caraway; Idaho's Borah, Montana's Walsh, Wisconsin's Blaine) when it was found that he had previously filed a statement in which this appeared...
...shouted angry charges at the lobby committee, accused it of prejudice, dirty politics, a determination to besmirch his reputation. He insisted his motives were pure, that he had done nothing improper. Rather lamely he accused Senator Elaine, a lobby-hunter, of carrying a capitol policeman (federal paid) to Wisconsin last summer, using him as a chauffeur. This Senator Elaine vehemently denied. Other Senators arose, attacked Bingham without mercy. Senator Norris broadly hinted at a resolution of censure...
...parlor radio a code-wise listener-in in Wisconsin heard screeching buzzes: "S. O. S.-S. 0. S.-Water up to- ' That was all. He telephoned the Coast Guard. But they heard no more signals. Next day the Milwaukee, one of the Grand Trunk R. R.'s big car ferries out of Milwaukee for Grand Haven had not reached her destination with a crew of 52. Two days later lake steamers sighted empty life boats, mattresses, the upper part of a ship's cabin. They picked up bodies strapped in lifebelts stenciled S. S. Milwaukee. Then they...
...current Nation ("radical" weekly), one Clarence E. Cason, sometime University of Wisconsin rhetoric pedagog, tells the woeful tale of Jeff Burrus, "the university's best electric signboard," Phi Beta Kappa member, Junior Prom chairman, footballer, crew captain. Pedagog Cason said that Paragon Burrus suffered a nervous breakdown from his wide participation in college affairs. Winning a Rhodes scholarship, he went abroad, suffered another breakdown. "Out of his experience has come the conviction that college athletics used him rather shabbily. . . . His picture tends to show conclusively that a football player has no time or thought to give to anything...
Midwest: Chicago v. Wisconsin at Chicago; Illinois v. Army at Urbana; Iowa v. Minnesota at Iowa City; Notre Dame v. Drake at Chicago; Ohio State v. Northwestern at Columbus...