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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hard to hold, apparently, iz the seat of the junior U. S. Senator from Ohio, once filled by Warren Gamaliel Harding. In three years Death & Defeat have cut down its last three occupants. Last week a fourth man stepped up to try his luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ohio's Fourth | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Last fortnight Attorney General Mitchell detailed over the radio the Administration's plan for permanent prison betterment. It called for $6.500,000 to build five new Federal prisons: a 1,200-inmate penitentiary in the northeastern states, an industrial reformatory in the West for 1.200, three Federal jails to hold 500 short-term convicts each. The plan also projects reorganization of the parole system, development of prison industries, provision for education of prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Stone Upon Stone | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...cast aside as the State was returned to normal Democracy by a thumping 70,000-vote margin. When Republicans and anti-Smith Democrats coalesced on Professor Brown and "a new era of humanity" was predicted (TIME, July 8), President Hoover wished the new group well, hoped it would hold his 1928 gains in the South. Underlying campaign issue: "Raskobism." The election meant the political unfrocking of Bishop James Cannon Jr., who was absent in Brazil when election day came. Governor-elect Pollard called his victory "a warning to those who may seek, for partisan purposes, to revive religious strife." Commented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vote Castings | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Coach O'Donnell's eleven is not only reported to be strong, it is strong. Any team that can hold Fordham to a 7 to 9 triumph soon after the latter's convincing victory over N. Y. U. is not to be regarded as a pushover. According to a former Harvard assistant, Holy Cross, using Notre Dame formations, is one of the fastest charging and hardest hitting teams of the East. The Purple line has a savage lift and drive and forms a dogged defense that is an even match for a somewhat doubtful Crimson forward wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEST PURPLE TEAM IN YEARS OPPOSES CRIMSON COHORTS | 11/16/1929 | See Source »

Tonight at 7.15 o'clock, the Class of 1933 will hold a mass meeting, in the Smith Halls Common Room. The gathering will be in celebration of the game which the Freshman team plays with Yale 1933 Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN GATHER FOR YALE GAME RALLY IN SMITH HALL | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

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