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When in 1898 Rear-Admiral William Thomas Sampson steamed from Key West for the blockade of Santiago (TIME, Sept. I), Key West was a bustling harbor, a busy naval station, a bristling fort (Ft. Taylor). Key West had been fortified since 1846, had remained Federal during the Civil War. Southernmost U. S. port, situated on a coral island 60 mi. southwest of the Florida mainland (now joined by the oversea Florida East Coast R. R.), during the Spanish War it was concentration centre for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, embarkation point for many a Cuba-bound soldier. During the World...
...decision of the Graduate School faculty to admit only those men who have gained a Phi Beta Kappa key or who have shown distinct ability in their line of work, will undoubtedly raise the standards of scholarship in the Graduate School and reduce the growing congestion of budding Ph.D.'s, who crowd the stacks of Widener...
...taken those that are key industries, those where activity may be stimulated and employment given on a larger scale. We have secured the consumer against exploitation, and the result will do much to meet the emergent conditions for which this Parliament was called together." War Whoop. Like an Indian war whoop rose Liberal King's instant challenge to Conservative Bennett's statement. Scarcely had the Prime Minister sat down when the ex-Prime Minister moved and read a scathing amendment: "This House regrets that the Government has seen fit at a special session called to deal only with...
...paper is no longer I. P. & P.'s major concern. The second P., which stands for Power, is the biggest one. This week President Hoover was to touch a golden key at the White House, starting the water wheels and generators of the biggest waterpower plant in New England, on the Connecticut River between St. Johnsbury, Vt. and Littleton, N. H., a 216,000-h.p. project built by New England Power Association (I. P. & P. subsidiary). -Distributed by Graphic Syndicate to Philadelphia News, Detroit Illustrated, New Haven Times-Union...
...Boston's winter buds one half dollar to learn that entrance to University Hall should not be made through a window. The woman in the, case desired a copy of the dean's list of students for use as a social register at her coming presentation. But the key which had been given to her for lawful trespass failed to unlock the ancient portal...