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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Tohman, last years all-American Brown goalie, heads the list of other players, which also includes the Englishmen, Lenn Mason, D. E. Davis, and W. Williams, Fred Alis and Dick King, of Amherst, and W. H. Mears, of Williams.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, Graduate Schools In Soccer Clash Here Today | 10/16/1935 | See Source »

That was enough politics for Frank Knox until last autumn, when, in the absence of famed Adman Albert Davis Lasker, he was called upon to make a speech to raise Republican funds at an Old Elm dinner. Frank Knox, ineloquent but convincing, raised $75,000. He was called upon to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: GOPossibilities | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Dean of correspondents covering the war is high-strung, sagacious Karl von Wiegand of Universal Service, who postponed writing his memoirs to go to Ethiopia. Assisting him is Wynant Davis Hubbard, onetime (1919-20) Harvard tackle, who in 35 years has been a miner, missionary, cartographer, plumber, dentist, undertaker, explorer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newshawks, Seals | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Libertarian John William Davis, at the Founder's Day exercises of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn: "A mystical faith, similar to that of uncivilized mankind for their idols, is springing up around us. a faith by which we are called upon to submit all our problems to a being called the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 14, 1935 | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Ira Gustave Gillman did not win. Many of his words were rejected as Scottish slang, dialect, obsolete. Contestant Gillman later lost a similar contest held by Consolidated Cigar Corp., won an out-of-court settlement on the prize money. With this experience behind him he filed suit against Phillips Chemical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Word Game | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

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