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Arthur Jameson has developed rapidly to become the Crimson number, one man in the breaststroke, with Jim Munroe backing him up. The divers include Rusty Greenhood, Lobey Forebusch, and Bob Snider. Greenhood is the most consistent performer in this event...
...Frank's services as president." Peculiar was the position of Acting President Sellery, an arch-conservative educator called affectionately by some, contemptuously by others, "The Old Tory." In 1917 he and most of the rest of Wisconsin's faculty signed a round robin denouncing old Father "Fighting Bob" La Follette for his pacifism. La Follette adherents never forgave him, hinted that Glenn Frank should fire him as soon as he became president...
...scrappy Crimson Jayvee team crushed Newport, Y.M.C.A. under a score of 40-32, Saturday afternoon at the Indoor Athletic Building. Dick Wills and Bob Green tallied 25 of the home team's points, while Johnson led the losers with 12 points...
...long chat. For the rest of that day and the next and the next, cue-seekers passed in procession through the White House offices. Those interested in immediate or routine questions-inauguration ceremonies (Admiral Gary T. Grayson), CCC continuation (Director Fechner), tax revision (Senator Pat Harrison, Representative Bob Doughton), budget (Secretary Morgenthau, Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve)-got immediate answers. But Franklin Roosevelt, having waved aside for a whole month matters of second-term policy, gave no sign that he was ready promptly on return to give cues on such major projects as reviving the substance...
Glenn Frank left the editorship of Century magazine for the presidency of the University of Wisconsin in September 1925. That month marked a momentary lull in La Follette Progressivism in Wisconsin. Republican John J. Elaine was Governor, old "Bob" was dead after running a poor third for President the year before, "Young Bob" was being eased into his father's Senate seat, Brother Philip was district attorney of Dane county. Old Bob had peered amiably on occasion into the University but when the Republican and Progressive regents got together to elect Editor Frank, then an eloquent young Republican liberal...