Word: crops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Except for the Dartmouth victory in 1907, matters had a definite Crimson hue until the end of the pre-war crop of games, although there were no walkovers reminiscent of the 19th Century scores. Charley Brickley's toe decided the 3-0 struggle in 1912, the last game before a ten year break in football relations between the two colleges...
...press conference to understand that he had practically made up his mind to call a special session of Congress next month, to start "spadework" on new legislation. He immediately laid out the special session's program, starting where the 75th Congress' tired first session ended last summer: crop control, antilynching, wages and hours legislation, reorganization of the executive branch of the Government, regional planning. The President promised his final decision on an extra session probably within a week. In Washington three days later, he announced that he would make the first "fireside talk" of the autumn...
...more than any other firm. Also interested in potatoes, they had gross sales of $5,000,000. Last month after some disagreements Onion King Balish bought out his partner. Last week the new firm of Benjamin Balish Co., Inc. was squared off to dominate this year's smallish crop of 50,000 carloads, harvested from crops in most States. Mr. Dingfelder returned to the produce firm of C. I. & M. Dingfelder in which he long had an interest...
American History is a peculiarly suitable province for such academic pursuits because the problems that face us all cannot be understood without some historical perspective. Crop control, John Lewis's C. L. O., and the President's foreign policy can be most intelligently discussed by those familar with the rise of Populism, the history of craft unionism, and the conditions prevalent when Washington counseled his country against entangling alliances. More tolerance to new policies that seem to clash with old American customs may develop when we realize that many accepted reforms like free education, the limitation of hours of labor...
Brian Kilmartin, bald, bony, hawk-featured tenant farmer on the hills above the village of Crom; his sons Michael and Martin, and Martin's newlywed wife Mary, are the principal characters. The story starts the year before the famine when the blight touched a tithe of the crop with the first dapplings of disaster. The damage was small that year, but it was enough to make the Kilmartins draw in their belts a little. Potatoes (dug fresh from the ground in summer, stored in fern-lined earthen pits through the winter; served boiled, with a bowlful of salt water...