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...legislative halls. Two years ago, he failed in his first campaign to carry a strongly Republican district by the narrow margin of only 1800 votes. Tomorrow the people of this district have another chance to end their habit-voting and select a representative who will help to make the 77th Congress a body able to meet the legislative requirements of today...
Last week genial Colonel Adler, who served overseas with the 77th Division in 1918, told a group of Princeton alumni and students about a bill which was being drawn up for Congressional action. Most interesting detail: not only young men would be drafted, but about 15% of the draftees would be men from 32 to 38, and 5%, men of 38 to 45 (on the proved theory that groups combining different ages and various levels of intelligence do the best soldiering...
Shaggy-browed Connie Mack (Cornelius McGillicuddy) celebrated his 77th birthday, admitted that he had picked his son Earle, 47, to succeed him as president-manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, hastily covered his slip: "But he'll be wearing long, grey whiskers before then...
Except that it was held amidst the distracting beauties of San Francisco, last week's 77th annual meeting of the National Education Association was a typical coldwater convention. Thanks to the delights of Treasure Island, the incidental joys of cable-cars, Chinatown and the city's justly-famed cool weather, few delegates even bothered to attend the meetings-though smart pressagentry managed to fill the Opera House for one series of dull speeches. As usual, the convention delivered itself of some earnest "Whereas-es" and "Be-it-resolveds"; this time they were in favor of democracy...
...Harvard's varsity crew: the 77th Harvard-Yale boat race, oldest (1852) intercollegiate sporting event in the U. S.; for the fourth year in a row; by 1¼ lengths; over a four-mile course; on the Thames at New London. This week the victorious oarsmen sail for England to compete in the Royal Henley Regatta on London's Thames...