Word: attender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor Junior who had one eye on a degree in Economics and the other on a Hockey letter found after two weeks of experience that he could not attend a 2 o'clock lecture and 2:30 o'clock practice at the same time. After suffering ill words from both sides until a point beyond which lay ruin, he determined to do something about it. He took a hockey stick to class Friday...
That Congress was paying far less heed than the President might have wished to the program he had asked it to attend to, by no means meant that it was doing nothing last week. On the contrary, it meant principally that an extraordinary session called when there was nothing very extraordinary going on, had assembled when something most extraordinary was. This was of course, Recession. Notoriously liberal in regard to spending money, Congress is otherwise generally inclined to be conservative. The problem most on the minds of both Houses last week was helping business. In the ways it considered...
...worried was the U. A. W. high command by the possibility of the current restlessness developing into a general G. M. strike that the full executive committee was summoned last week into emergency session, and John L. Lewis dispatched a personal representative to attend. After an all-night meeting the faction-torn executive committee broke up for breakfast, went groggily to bed. Meantime a U. A. W. underling went out to the Fisher plant, learned that the rebels were under the firm impression that Homer Martin was scared to speak to them in person. Attempting to report this...
George Bernard Shaw scribbled on a postcard, "Plays of that author do not attract me; I never go to one if I can possibly help it," sent the postcard to Welwyn Garden City, Herts, England, where he had been invited to attend a performance of his Saint Joan...
...Bees' new head-man expressed satisfaction with the team's showing in the latter half of the past season. With no specific deals up his sleeve, he will leave today for the Milwaukee minor league convention accompanied by President Robert Quinn and latter attend the National League trade-fast...