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...country will determine if Mr. Jannicke or Janeck, or whatever his name might be, is right."* Thus did party warfare return to the Capitol. For almost three months Speaker Garner has ruled the House with care and quiet, to a legislative record for his party. With only the narrowest margin of Democratic control, he has, by his own personal force, kept his party united and moving constructively down the middle of the legislative road. The Republican minority has had an affectionate respect for him as shown by its participation in the uproarious Garner demonstration by the whole House after Bicentennial...
...championship Winthrop House swimming team was defeated by a slight margin on Saturday afternoon by the Yale sophomore mermen...
...geographical distribution of students coming to Harvard University during the current academic year, show attendance from every state of the United States and from 46 foreign countries or United States possessions. The ranking of the states shows the first six places unchanged, with Massachusetts leading by a large margin, New York second, Pennsylvania third, Ohio fourth, New Jersey fifth, and California sixth. Connecticut has moved up from eighth to seventh place, dislodging Illinois; Missouri has moved up from eleventh to ninth place, and Michigan and Maine are tied at tenth...
...sugar trade to open their books to the Institute's detectives and accountants; they have induced or compelled beet sugar refiners (none of whom belong to the Institute) to adopt many of their rules, thus restricting their competition. Item: these lawless practices helped sugar refiners to increase their margin of profit 30%, take it out of the public's pocket. To prove their point Lawyers Fly & Rice compared two refiners' profits for 1928, the Institute's first year, with 1927. Biggest, American Sugar Refining Co., jumped from $3,585,000 to $6,568,000; next biggest, National Sugar Refining...
...Through a typographical error TIME fortnight ago reported the minimum margin for record-beating as 5 m.p.h. instead of .5 m.p.h...