Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructor in the hard facts of their situation was to be Paul Martin Pearson, onetime professor of oratory, founder of the Swarthmore Chautauqua, father of Newshawk Drew Pearson Washington Merry-Go-Round. A kind and visionary old gentleman, Mr. Pearson became the first civil governor of the islands three years ago. The hard economic facts among the 22,000 Virgin islanders (93% Negro...
...Star Game. Sports Editor Arch Ward of the Chicago Tribune last year promoted the idea of a game between picked stars of the American and National Leagues to advertise the World's Fair. The game drew a crowd of 49,000, and netted $42,000 for the benefit of indigent members of the Association of Professional Ball Players. This year League officials thought it would be wise to have another all-star game. Managers Bill Terry of the World-Champion Giants, and Joe Cronin of last year's pennant-winning Washington Senators were invited to select and manage...
...Nazi eyes Dr. Goebbels loomed more than ever a possible successor to Herr Hitler as he rushed among the masses last week and drew cheers from large brownshirt gatherings in Berlin with attacks plainly meant for von Papen and his Hindenburg ilk. "My party comrades," cried Dr. Goebbels, "only the National Socialist party has the right to criticize. To all others I deny that right. If we had relied upon those suave cavaliers who see in National Socialism only a transitory phenomenon, Germany would have been lost. The importance of these persons should not be overestimated. If we stamp...
...beat. By the time they came into the last mile, a smooth dark lane between two walls of yachts, there was a length of open water between them. Drury sent his stroke up; Yale held its lead without raising its beat and then, when the last Harvard challenge failed, drew away by inches to a lead of 2¼ lengths at the finish. The time of the first Harvard-Yale boat race was not recorded. Yale's time last week-19:51.8-was a record for the four miles on the Thames, ten seconds faster than Harvard...
...first day but afterwards drew Hitler down somewhat from his cloud of Teuton mysticism...