Word: austin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome, heavy-browed young Jay C. was walking through his Austin, Minn, plant, laying off employes. Suddenly one of his men turned on him and said...
...Austin...
...collection of wooden shacks in Austin. Then it struck oil on part of its 2,000,000 west Texas acres (its State endowment). In the next ten years the university built a $10,000,000 campus. Two years ago it hired, at $15,000 a year, one of the nation's top-notch football coaches, Dana Xenophon Bible. Last week, having a swank campus and the beginnings of a football team, University of Texas set out to make itself an important educational institution. It hired as president (salary: $17,500) a top-notch educator, Homer Price Rainey, 42, director...
Husky Dr. Rainey is renowned as a crack investigator and organizer, a liberal educator with a leaning toward the arts, an able administrator. After graduation from Austin College (Texas), he played professional baseball in the Texas League. At 31 he was president of Franklin College (Indiana), four years later became president of Bucknell University. After four years there, he began in 1935 to investigate problems of U. S. youth as head of the American Youth Commission...
...AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 8--Communist, socialist, and fascist propaganda among college students is being felt mainly in the East Central and Middle Atlantic states as shown by a nation-wide poll taken by the Student Opinion Surveys of America...