Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first scene was a hurricane. Whipping in from the Atlantic Ocean, the storm that was doing millions of dollars of damage elsewhere along the coast hit Garden City the day of the semifinals. Golf tradition, imported from Scotland, where hurricanes are unheard of and where anyone who waited for a tine day would rarely play at all, says golf is an all-weather game. Officials of the U. S. Golf Association refused to hear of a postponement, sent Scotland's Jack McLean and New York's George Voigt, Cincinnati's Johnny Fischer and Omaha's Johnny...
...support of University Professorships $523,696.37 (3) Specifically for Harvard National Scholarships: Anonymous $200,000.00 Friends and Family, William L. Boyden '86 21,000.00 Anonymous, for a Harvard National Scholarship "to bear the name of John Lowell Gardner" 25,000.00 Anonymous--a graduate formerly residing on the Pacific Coast, now in business in New York City 5,675.00 Mrs. George Chase Christian, for the "George Chase Christian Memorial Scholarships" for students from Minnesota, preferably in the graduate schools 50,000.00 Mr. and Mrs. Grenville Clark 11,039.60 Ernest L. Conant '84, for the "Conant - Allison Scholarship...
...touch & go whether the Basques and Ortega could keep the Anarchist pyromaniacs from "Direct Action." Finally, in a moderately humane battle, the Whites under General Mola went crashing victoriously along with their trucks and coughing machine guns, entered San Sebastian virtually unresisted. The Anarchists fled back up the coast to Bilbao, announced: "Rather than surrender Bilbao we shall burn it to the last empty box, to the last wisp of straw...
...this added up to a first-rate marine labor crisis on the West Coast which threatened to tighten rather than ease as Sept. 30 drew near. On that date expires the agreement reached after the 1934 general strike by the waterfront labor unions, notably Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's Association, and the Waterfront Employers' Association. Negotiations on a contract to replace it found both sides in a thoroughly truculent mood last week. Debates were featured by such extreme proposals from both labor and management that the shipowners finally suggested arbitration. The longshoremen agreed to poll their members...
...minute call from Manhattan to San Francisco costs $7.50 on weekdays, $4.50 on Sundays. Manhattan to Chicago: $2.50 on weekdays, $1.35 on Sundays. From Eastport, Me. to Portland, Ore., about the two most widely separated points in the U. S., a call can be made for $5 on Sundays. Coast-to-Coast connection time: 90 seconds...