Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acres of land near Petaluna to one Thomas B. Valentine. A poor protector of his own interests, Valentine failed to file this assignment with the U. S., with the result that he was "squatted" out of his holdings. He filed suit. The courts refused to give him back his own land, improved by squatters, but the U. S. recompensed him by issuing to him scrip (certificates) for 13,400 acres of public domain land anywhere else in the U. S. Valentine did not take up his acreage, but dribbled his scrip out in small sales to those who wished...
Last month (TIME, May 13) 1,700 Loray mill strikers reduced their demands, hoped to be taken back to work. Their offer was refused. Strikebreakers ran the mills. Downhearted, the strikers returned to their headquarters on the edge of town, chewed over their idleness in savage disappointment...
Last week a band of them, cursing "Scabs" started for the mill. Police intervened, turned them back to camp. Inside, a fight between two strikers brought the police. The strikers' guard opened fire on the law. Chief Aderholt, three policemen and Joseph Harrison, a union organizer, were shot in the fracas...
...Yale stroke, set at a much higher beat, makes little use of the long lay-back favored by the Harvard oarsmen, with the result that the Blue tipped oars, while at a higher clip, do not pull the length of water handled by the Crimson sweeps...
...University combination was not clicking last Saturday when it succumbed to the delivery of Frank Nekola, Holy Cross star, but should be back in form this afternoon. The same line-up, with but one exception, will be sent into action. S. L. Batchelder '31 will replace J. D. Dudley '31, on the receiving end of the battery...