Word: bryan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final play-off, the Matthews ten took the freshman Softball Championship yesterday. Although the Thayer Softles took an early 5 to 1 lead, Jim Monkman pulled the Champs even in the fifth frame. Bob McLaughlin came home on a fly by Dick Sprague to score the winning run. While Bryan Smith rounded the bases just to cinch the Matthews victory...
Naval Lieutenant Commander Jennings Bryan Dow scored heavily for the Celler Bill's proposed Washington location when he testified that transmission of Washing ton programs to San Diego for Pan-American broadcasting would add $600,000 annual line charges to operating costs...
...Chicago during the Pullman strike of 1894, going over Altgeld's head, the governor had taken more than he could stand-he became a cool, impersonal, relentless political strategist, controlling the Democratic Party convention in 1896, maneuvering so skillfully that his enemies were thrown into panic. And after Bryan's defeat, when the Populists were exhausted and demoralized, he was almost the only leader who kept going, launching another attack on monopoly, vested interests and Wall Street as if unaware that his side had been licked. When he died in 1902, newspapers that had attacked him savagely began...
...years a conscientious, 47-year-old, Texas-born scholar, Dr. Charles Callan Tansill, onetime lecturer in diplomatic history at Johns Hopkins University, has been trying to find out what happened before that document was signed-what happened to U. S. finance, the munitions industry, and public opinion; to Wilson, Bryan, Lansing and the miscellaneous group of pacifists and practical politicians who made up Wilson's Cabinet; to the German Admiralty, to international law, even to the hoary traditions of diplomatic usage. On the 21st anniversary of U. S. entry into the War he published his findings. Called by Historian...
...chaotic situation that developed in international finance in 1915, when Allied orders were keeping U. S. factories humming, but when the Administration's disapproval of loans to belligerents threatened a crisis, Wilson listened to House, but did not call in Treasury experts to advise him. Wilson and Bryan, says Dr. Tansill, were gulled by Wall Street, approving measures that ran counter to their policy of neutrality in general, until the U. S. was bound to the Allied cause by the firmest of economic ties. Nevertheless, he clears Wall Street of the charge of dragging the U. S. into...