Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actor who had pounded Manhattan's pavements far oftener than he had trod its boards saw some kids swapping candy for marbles, and got an idea. Thereupon young Robert Porterfield, with fire in his eye, a dollar in his pocket and 21 famished actors in his wake, went back where he came from, to Abingdon in the Virginia mountains. There he opened a summer theatre, offering tickets for 35? in cash or the equivalent in barter...
Scripts in hand, the cast started off patriotically, keeping Britain's chin up with such songs as We Haven't Got the Jitters and An Air Raid Shelter for Two. But soon they were back at digging Chamberlain in the ribs and blasting England's slowpoke policy on the Western Front. Said a "communiqué": "It is officially stated that British troops have arrived in France and have agreed to fight on the same side as the French. A formula is being prepared." Began a song...
...large and kind and beneficial and be honored and do good." At Columbia University, where he went to teach English after graduation from University of Iowa, Dr. Bowman charmed Andrew Carnegie and Nicholas Murray Butler, who made him secretary of the Carnegie Foundation. In 1911, at 34, he went back to University of Iowa as its president, resolved to make it the "Athens of the West." But he failed to get along with the trustees, quit after two years, be came director of the American College of Surgeons (a hospital-improvement society). One day a Pittsburgh trustee, the late Alfred...
Last week World War II brought venerable white-haired, deaf Charles Beard back to Columbia. Still peppery but now a pacifist, Dr. Beard last week was one of the most convinced and outspoken isolationists in the U. S. Accepting a job as visiting professor from President Nicholas Murray Butler, to whom he gave his resignation 22 years ago, Dr. Beard said: "What is past is past," began to teach a seminar of graduate students "The Concept of Democracy in American Political Thought...
...that the crew rebelled. They wanted Captain Borkowski or nobody. They did not want to go to Canada and carry munitions to Britain. Moreover, there was some back pay due them. They would not sail. Police were summoned...