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...help support the American Embassy." At this, Mrs. Dawes rose (out of order) from her seat, and in a voice trembling with emotion declared: "I think we have struck the very lowest note of the week listening to charges of bribery and corruption against men not present here to defend themselves...
Asked about his predicament, Superintendent McAndrew was bland. "The investigations," he said, "have all been conducted on the same plane. I have been given no bill of requirements to fill out and no specific educational policies to defend." Then, with exquisite tact, he added: ''I have been in Chicago, altogether, seven* years. Since things move five times as fast in Chicago as elsewhere, those seven years amount to 35 actual years. That is long enough to absorb the Chicago atmosphere...
...those who are ever alert for data with which to defend the present importance given to athletics in colleges and universities comes some interesting news from Michigan. The Battle Creek College, it is announced, has made use of its, football squad during the post season in the conducting of biological experiments. The men who ate at the training tables were given a diet which did not include any meat, and in place of this item of food they were given certain of the constituent elements of animal flesh in the form of chemical compounds such as food ferrin (iron...
When Coach Farrell's track charges return to Cambridge after the Christmas vacation, it will be to face the official opening of winter practice on January 3. A busy season on the boards is in prospect for the Crimson runners who will have to defend their indoor intercollegiate laurels, won at New York last year...
...first cases springing directly from the Oil Scandal was tried in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision stated that the leases of the Teapot Dome lands should be cancelled due to fraud. Not one of the people incriminated in the trial have taken the stand to defend themselves. They have evidently decided that whatever they say might incriminate them. Doheny stated that all the charges made against him were false. He awaited only the opportunity to clear himself. When the time came, he never made the least attempt to appear before the court. This is no plea...