Word: caning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teatime in Buckingham Palace last week Princess Margaret Rose, 8, was invited in to have a buttered scone with her father, mother and Queen Mother Mary. Proudly she strutted up and down, swinging a cane, wearing her new coronet...
Sugar's trouble dates back to the World War, when beet production in Europe was severely disrupted. At that time cane producers who are sellers on the world market in London, particularly Java and Cuba, increased acreages mightily. The War over, European beet growers so sprouted behind tariff fences that by 1929 the continental sugar output topped 1913-14 production by 500,000 tons, the world market was glutted...
...could make a suit of clothes himself. Afterward he worked in a grocery store and bar, as a railroad fireman, engineer, conductor. Once he studied to be a barber. In the sugar boom of 1920, Cuba's Dance of the Millions, he was administrator of an Oriente cane plantation and likes to recall how he spurned his chances then to enrich himself dishonestly. Next year he entered the army as an infantry private. He was smart enough to study shorthand, which enabled him to win a competitive army examination and become a court stenographer with the rank of sergeant...
Besides unifying the intra-mural system this central committee also manages the annual cane spree and some off-season varsity sports such as spring soccer and fall crew...
With the passing of Mr. Rogers, a colorful figure departs from the gala Harvard commencement picture. He attended practically every graduation exercises, except when in ill health, and his cane and white beard were familiar June sights as he proudly led the alumni procession on such occasions. Only by a scant day did he outlive John T. Morse, '60, aged 97, second oldest alumnus, who died Saturday at his home in Needham. Thus the honor position in the procession now passes to John Kittredge Browne, '69, of Chicago. But moderate Mr. Rogers will not soon be forgotten as typifying...