Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...well as words came from the White House as election aftermath. President Hoover summoned Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock back to Washington from San Francisco just as he was sailing for Hawaii (see p. 20). Estimates were prepared on which President Hoover would "recommend to Congress a special emergency appropriation to be applied to a further intensification of public works ... to provide further employment...
Control. Barring a special session, the 72nd Congress will first convene Dec. 7, 1931. As all observers hastened to point out, the Congressional line-up during the intervening twelve months will undoubtedly be shifted to one party or the other by deaths or resignations.* To add to the uncertainty of control at least a dozen House and Senate elections will be formally contested after Congress meets, in addition to earlier recounts in the field. In an Indiana Congressional District (8th), for example, a Republican claimed victory by ten votes out of 88,400 while in an Illinois district (24th...
...guests a new ventilating fan. Assistant Superintendent Peter McKinley took charge, issued 20 gasmasks to volunteers, sent them down. They came back. The gas had penetrated their masks. Out along the dirt road leading from the nearby town of Athens came the whistles and bells of ambulances, police cars, special State mine-relief cars which had been stationed throughout the coal area. Underground the mine channels were strewn with debris. A shattered 12-ton hauling locomotive had been blown 50 ft. from where it stood. Farther along the track, a 3,000-lb. steel car had flown...
...Special student rates for these plays will be one dollar. Tickets may be obtained at the Cambridge School of the Drama in the Rogers Building, or at the door the night of the performances...
With regard to football and baseball, men retained have often gone through the season without award, whereas if they had been cut, they might have received the minor insignia with the second team. The new ruling would be commendable, except in the special case of Seniors who have played three years on the squad, but never opposed Yale. Here it has often been the custom for the player to be voted a major H. If this custom could be continued, with the minor letters being awarded at the end of Sophomore and Junior years, the recommendation would be of advantage...