Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...renomination in West Virginia's primary last week was Democratic Senator Matthew Mansfield Neely. West Virginia's other Democratic Senator. 30-year-old Rush Dew Holt, has made many a bitter charge that Senator Neely was using WPA jobs to build up a great political machine (TIME, March 23). To get even with his senior colleague for hogging WPA patronage, Senator Holt backed Ralph M. Hiner, onetime Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates, for the nomination. Rush D. Holt won only the moral victory of having told the truth about the strength of the Neely machine...
...snow-haired, precise "Pres. Penn," who in 25 years increased the "college's endowment by $7,000,000, ruled it with an iron hand. Early in President Pendleton's term the famed 1914 Fire burned most of Wellesley to the ground. Undismayed, the president set out to build a vast neo-Gothic plant which now covers the Waban campus with tons of imposing stone. Big (1,500 students) and expensive ($500 tuition), Wellesley thinks of itself as a happy compromise between studious Bryn Mawr and social Smith and Vassar...
...York, after killing 25 Germans singlehanded and capturing 132 more with a squad of seven men, returned to Fentress County as the "greatest civilian soldier of the War," he promptly married his childhood sweetheart, Gracie Williams, with Tennessee's Governor performing the ceremony. His next wish was to build a good school for the neighbors' children. Hero York raised $10,000 by a lecture tour, Tennessee put up $50,000 and proud Fentress County pledged $50,000 more. In 1929 the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute opened its doors, offered young mountaineers a respectable education through high school...
Unless matters clear up pretty noticeably next year, Harvard will have to step into the breach with her own poll. While we may not have a choice for "best build" or "smoothest" we can certainly do justice to the assets of our own senior class and think up some fairly conclusive titles which will open the eyes of big business to the diamonds lying rough in the graduating body. Self promotion never hurts and if "biggest liar" of Class of '37 is called into a nationally known advertising firm or if "biggest bore" is eagerly sought as a political leader...
...subsequent performances Impresario Wronski has drilled choruses, directed orchestras, helped build scenery, scoffed at scoffers until now he can command a substantial backing from the citizens of Detroit. Last week he was so excited that he almost swallowed his cigar backstage. After Detroit he took The Dybbuk to Chicago, scheduled it for five performances this week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...