Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute announced today a series of public lectures, of which Mr. Hodge's is the first. The lectures are scheduled as follows: Nov. 14, "China's Back Door," by Schuyler Cammann, for several years a teacher in China; Nov. 28, "Aerial Photographic Mapping," by Lieutenant Colonel James W. Bagley; Dec. 12, "Travels in Northwestern Canada," by P. G. Downes; and Dec. 19, "Biological Observations in the Dutch East Indies," by Charles T. Brues, professor of Entomology...
...Professor: "You're the toast of the East, Brother Snavely, for the job your Big Redmen did on Ohio State in their own back yard. You get an 'A' on the report card for that...
Bluff Mr. Thorkelson hedged at explaining how Communists and International Bankers get together, snorted: "Jews got Huey Long and Bronson Cutting." Everywhere Mr. Thorkelson looks, it looks bad. Looking back, he sees Woodrow Wilson ordering a passport given to Leon Trotsky in 1917, so that the Russian Revolution could be started. Looking forward, he sees Revolution in the U. S. in a few months. Looking at Montana, he sees his constituents counting the days until...
...Aderholt of Gastonia was shot dead-whether by strikers or by drunken officers has never been conclusively proved. Convicted of conspiracy to murder, Fred Beal and six others jumped their $5,000 appeal bonds and fled to Soviet Russia. There one blossomed as a professor. Three vanished. One fled back to America and died. Fred Beal and one other eventually returned and were imprisoned, Beal to serve 17 to 20 years...
...Cashman of the American: "An even tussle. Dartmouth hasn't enough material to outman Harvard; if Blaik should need an eighth back today, he wouldn't know where to find...