Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...covered the Greco-Turk War and the advent of Mussolini. In 1925 the New York Times sent him to report the Riff War. He was assigned successively to the Times' Vienna and Geneva bureaus, and after a year on their cable desk in New York he was sent back to take charge of the Geneva office. Although he is now on an indefinite leave of absence, he has been transferred to the paper's Washington bureau...
...Hills band played for the Smoker and was so well received that the committee is taking this opportunity of bringing him back again. We hope the free dance will alleviate the strain which the weekend might place on many Freshman pocketbooks," stated Newman...
Yesterday the idle Crimson baseball warriors dropped down into a first place tie with Dartmouth as a result of the Indians' 9 to 3 victory over Yale at Hanover, but this afternoon at three o'clock Tom Healey goes to the mound in an effort to send the Stahlmen back into the League lead in a return game with Columbia at Soldiers Field...
Wellesley struck back with a vengeance early this morning, but due to the vigilance of "the General" Apted and his courageous henchmen, the latest attempt on the virtue of venerable John Harvard was foiled...
Apted's men put up a good front despite the danger and succeeded in driving away the invaders who fied casting lending glances back at the Freshman halls...