Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whether Harvard would be breaking any law by ignoring this statute is hard to say. As it is perfectly clear, however, that Harvard would be charged with being a law-breaker by many ignorant people whatever the true legal situation is, it is doubtless proper to avoid such charge unless serious principle is at stake...
...Sasha") de Seversky, Russian War ace, inventor, president of the Seversky Aircraft Corp. Accompanied only by his cocker spaniel, Vodka, he sent a 710-h. p. amphibian of his own design over a Detroit racecourse at 230.03 m.p.h., some 39 m.p.h. faster than the old mark. Unlike Record-Breaker Hughes, Pilot Seversky was well satisfied with his new amphibian record. But like Designer Hughes, Designer Seversky began tinkering his plane, muttered: "It'll go faster...
...Journey By Night (adapted by Arthur Goodrich; Shuberts, producers), a hackneyed, pathetically pretentious tale of a romantic young man who ruins himself for a scarlet woman, is less notable as an evening's entertainment than as a record-breaker for failure. Once called A Trip to Pressburg and again The Face at the Window, it was written by Leo Perutz and produced by Max Reinhardt in Vienna in 1931 with Mrs. Ferenc Molnar as the leading lady. Three U. S. producers held rights to the show before the Shuberts had Harry Wagstaff Gribble revise it for presentation in Philadelphia...
...coaches, Gallagher and Johnson have a little story all their own. Gallagher, an all round athlete in his undergraduate days, several times All-South-western grid star and record-breaker on the cinders, comes from a coaching family which includes Eddie Gallagher, present wrestling coach at Oklahoma State, which is considered the ne plus ultra in the matter of wrestling...
Beliefs: Labor is King. Unionization is Utopia. National issues are irrelevant, but nevertheless Roosevelt is a "strike-breaker." Election of Sinclair, a pseudo-Socialist, would be a setback to "radicalism...