Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . The crux of West Point's stand lies in ... that with its smaller enrolment it cannot cope with Annapolis unless it can disregard the three-year rule...
...this position is to be accepted, what of the colleges whose enrolment is only equal to or less than that of West Point, but who take on larger colleges without demanding any such concession? The figures given below are taken from the Chicago Daily News Year Book of 1926, but are approximate of this year's strength. With due allowance that certain of these colleges include in their totals the noneligible co-eds and graduate students, the revised figures do not materially affect the situation...
Interlocking agencies, the Tariff Association and Taxpayers League share the same Washington 'offices, the same office staff, the same cash solicitors. Their collections are pooled. Their field agents last year brought in $209,586. In return they supplied contributors with "educational bulletins" on tax and tariff matters, gave "expert" advice on fiscal affairs. Sample expenditure: $700 to Frank D. Mondell, onetime Republican floor leader of the House, now a lobbying lawyer, to urge a higher duty on peanuts before the tariff commission. The sum of $77,936.44 went to Lobbyist Arnold and his three chief assistants, one of whom...
Into the record went a list-a "sucker list," Wisconsin's Blaine called it-of last year's contributors to this joint lobby fund. Samples...
...died in 1928. Appointed was Cyrus Locher. Ohio voters rejected him in 1928. He, too, is now dead. Mr. Locher's conqueror at the polls was Theodore Elijah Burton, buried last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Governor Myers Cooper appointed Roscoe Conkling McCulloch to the seat. Next year Ohio voters will again have to select a man to finish out the term to which they originally chose Willis...