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...automatically upon creation, die in the Senate because of the one-man filibuster of Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas on another issue. Runner-up for the 1930 title of "Champion Horseshoe Pitcher of Congress," he defeated his Democratic opponent in the last Congressional election by nine votes. Died. Frederick Benjamin Haviland, 63, music publisher; of pneumonia developed from influenza; in Manhattan. Learning the business from the late Oliver Ditson, he founded a firm with the late Songwriter Paul Dresser ("On the Banks of the Wabash," which they published), brother of Novelist Theodore Herman Dreiser. During his life Publisher Haviland sold...
...other speakers who took part in last night's audition, with their orations, were: D. M. Sullivan '33. "The Forsaken Merman" by Matthew Arnold; P. H. Cohen '32, the death of Socrates from Plato's "Phaedo," translated by Benjamin Jowett; T. I. Moran '32, speech before the American Bar Association on March 8, 1930, by Frank I. Kellogg; H. D. Patterson '34, "The Decline of the Drama" by Stephen Leacock; Albert Allen '33, a selection from "Sticks and Stones" by Lewis Mumford; and A. L. Gordon '34, "Address before the Suffolk Bar Association," February 5, 1885, by Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Lowell House neckties are now for sale at the Harvard Cooperative Society, bearing a decoration scheme planned by Benjamin Rowland '28, Tutor in the Division of Fine Arts...
...Confirmed Benjamin Nathan Cardozo of New York to be an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court and James Henderson Douglas Jr. of Chicago to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
...yard relay--Won by Harvard (H. L. Lash '32, Benjamin Sommers '33, C. A. Currier '32, G. F. Hamman '33); second, Yale (Vetteslein, Wickwire, Benedito, Prosser.) Time...