Word: columbia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Columbia had been beaten only by Princeton when it faced Navy last week. It was to be the last important game of his college career for Cliff Montgomery, Columbia's captain, quarterback and current hero. Behind a pile-driving line he made an early touchdown, only to see Navy tie the score with a 76-yd. run by Halfback "Buzz" Borries. Again in the third period Montgomery made a touchdown and the game looked safe. In the last few minutes Ed Brominski batted a Navy pass into the arms of Navy's Borries. Borries dashed for Columbia...
...render a prompt return to the gold standard entirely feasible. The danger of an uncontrolled inflation, which is already serious, increases with every day of governmental delay in announcing a definite stabilization plan." Gold Demand. In Washington, Halsey K. Davis filed a mandamus action in the District of Columbia Supreme Court alleging that on Oct. 25 he had demanded at the Treasury gold coin in payment for a $20 gold certificate and had been refused. He demanded that Secretary Woodin be ordered to pay him $20 in gold-of the old value-on the grounds that the first three sections...
...Supreme Court of the District of Columbia decided that one of his emergency acts-declaration of the banking holiday last March-was legal and binding...
...article published in the maga- zine of the Columbia School of Journalism Professor Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman of Columbia made the following points: ''That the depression is ending; "That, for the first time in history, recovery from the bottom of an industrial cycle is being speeded consciously and effectively; "That fear of uncontrolled inflation has little basis in fact; "That we are not on the way to Bolshevism, Fascism or any other form of autocracy, but; "That we are in the midst of a social revolution, within the framework of capitalism, which promises lasting benefits...
Polled by the Press, numerous coaches voiced the wish to see the return of the "free ball" to the rules. Said Columbia's Coach Lou Little: "Let the boys run with a loose ball. That's the instinctive, the natural thing to do. ... There was a lot of argument that inferior teams used to grab fumbles and score winning touchdowns for lucky victories. I think that's silly. . . . The game is 60 minutes long. If you're winning for 55 minutes, get careless, fumble, lose in the last five, that's your tough luck...