Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leverett snagged the inter-House title in the track meet yesterday with 35 1/2 points. The meet was featured by a neck and neck contest in the broad jumping by Stuart and Mudge, both leaping exactly 19 feet 6 1/2 inches...
Winthrop was well represented by Stuart and Robie, both of whom struggled in to the tape for a tight decision in the 40 yard dash, while Stuart reaped another first in the broad jump, and a second in the 600 yard run, passing all but one in the field in a spectacular last lap, Robie registered a win in the high hurdles...
...last week when shots cracked out from sun-caked Matamoros, just across the broad Rio Grande from Brownsville, jumpy small-town Texan editors scare-headlined it as the expected Fascist revolt. When competent U. S. correspondents investigated they found no major revolt but a few Gold Shirts taking pot shots at police and Federal troops. After a day of skirmishing three Gold Shirts, one policeman, lay dead, 25 Gold Shirts were jailed. At dusk, Tamaulipas' Governor Marte R. Gómez took the Latin method of relieving tension. Alone, he strolled around the plaza at Matamoros...
...Broad-shouldered Oliver Carmichael was self-educated in the schoolroom and library built by his father, an Alabama farmer, for the family's seven boys and three girls.* At 15 he was ready to go to the University of Alabama. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, interrupted his studies to work for Herbert Hoover's relief commission in Belgium, to go to India, take a fling in General Smuts's East African Army. He was twice mistakenly arrested as a spy. When he arrived in Alabama to enlist in the U. S. Army...
...President Benjamin F. Fairless of U. S. Steel Corp. was engaged in borrowing $50,000,000 last week (see col. 1), his only son, Elaine, was discovered in the student training course in the Aliquippa, Pa. plant of Big Steel's little competitor, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Big, broad-shouldered and 24, Blaine Fairless went to Culver Military Academy, M. I. T. and Babson Institute, from which he graduated last spring. Liked by his fellow workers, he collects phonograph records, moves in a socialite young set. Month ago he and a dozen other gay blades ribbed Pittsburgh debutantes...