Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to a great poet and asked him to suggest a new one. The poet advised them to keep the one they had. They did. Unlike the Medicine Hatters, a large block of the citizenry of Linoleumville, Staten Island (pop.: 2,200), dissatisfied with their town's name, chose not to write to a famed poet for advice but to settle the question by ballot. Last week they did. Proposed were ten names (although any citizen was privileged to suggest any other name he fancied): Linoleumville, Travis, Melvin, Victory Heights, Scotstown, Berkley, Long Neck, Travisville, Mellburg, Carteret...
...bald head of Sportswriter Grantland Rice hovers the crown of All-American arbiter that was worn by the late great Walter Camp. But other U. S. sportswriters did not wait to hear the selections over which he was mulling for Collier's magazine last week in Chicago. They chose their own 1930 All-American football teams. Their consensus was as follows...
Last week he named an All-Big-Three team based on 26 years football experience. He chose Tom Shevlin (Y) and Tack Hardwick (H), ends; Ham (Congressman) Fish (H) and Century Milstead (Y), tackles; Stan Pennock (H) and Fiske Brown (H), guards; Winslow Lovejoy (Y), centre; Lyle Richeson (Y). quarterback; Marvin Stevens (Y) and Eddie Mahan (H), halfbacks; Bill Mallory (Y), fullback...
After twelve years of backing & filling, the American Bar Association last week chose its side of the Prohibition fence, went sopping...
...methods of steadying the industry were open. One was to let the price fall lower, eliminate high-cost producers. The other was to cut down production. It was the second that the producers chose, and last week, simultaneously with the price-rise, details of their plans became known...