Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President appointed Gustav Aaron Youngquist of Minnesota to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt's old post in the Department of Justice...
...Minnesota sired the sire of the National Prohibition Act. Pleased indeed was he. Andrew John Volstead, last week to learn that President Hoover had reached over 47 other States and 99 other candidates to choose a Minnesotan and a good Volstead friend as his Dry Hope, under whom the President purposes to consolidate all Prohibition activities. The appointment of Gustav Aaron Youngquist. Minnesota's Attorney-General, to be U. S. Assistant Attorney-General in charge of Prohibition & Taxation, had hardly reached St. Paul before Sire Volstead's daughter, Mrs. Laura Volstead Lomen, hurried to Mr. Youngquist...
...many years the Michigan football team was known as the championship aggregation of the West. The men were always quick; and they always gained numerous victories during the season. But Michigan's supremacy was disputed in those days, even more than now, by Minnesota...
...greatest traditions of this rivalry is the annual struggle for the "little brown jug." When old Michigan teams traveled to play Minnesota, they carried their water in a number of brown jugs, painted with the Michigan colors. One year, however, it was found that one of the jugs was missing. Every place was searched, but the container could not be found anywhere in connection with the Michigan team. The incident was more or less forgotten, until the next year, when, at the game at Ann Arbor, the Minnesota supporters appeared on the field with the brown jug, repainted with Minnesota...
Frank McMinn Chambers '30, of Port Arthur, Texas; John Emigh '30, of Augusta, Georgia; Richard Orvis Grisdale '31, of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Grenville Ross Holden '31, of Idaho Falls, Idaho; Leslie Clare Warren '29, of Hartford, Michigan, are those Harvard men who will be entered for consideration in the 1929 election, which will take place on December...