Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Widespread complaints about the slowness of the $3,300,000,000 public works program to reach the spending stage drew a spirited retort from Secretary Ickes last week before a Chicago conference of mayors. Blaming municipalities for construction delays, the Public Works Administrator declared: "All we can do is to ask you to 'Get on your mark! Get set! Go!' We can give you the money but we can't make you borrow it from us. ... We're more liberal than any lender on a large scale since the beginning of the world...
...residence on Kirkland Street, after an illness of nine months. Since 1912, he had been a full professor and had gained much fame from his courses, Comparative Literature 9 and 11, chiefly on the subject of Rousseau and the Romantic Movement. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Dora Drew Babbitt, his son, Edward S. Babbitt, and his daughter Edith, now Mrs. G. F. Howe of Cincinnati...
...burly, bald, scowling Robert Minor, the party's current nominee for Mayor of New York, attempted to picket a Brooklyn furniture factory in defiance of an injunction. Super-solemn Communist Minor, 49, thrice married, is the son of a Texas judge. For years he edited the Daily Worker, drew savage cartoons for the old Masses. On a soap box before the NRA factory, he yelled at its workers: "Comrades! Most of you are non-union members. You must earn a living. But don't scab on your fellow workers. Your factory carries a picture of the Blue Eagle...
...tree discovered to be infected. That was in 1930. Now the elms of all the Northeastern States are threatened. In New York and New Jersey 234 elms have been pruned, 126 cut down and burned. The possibility of American elms disappearing on account of the blight strengthened Dr. Elmer Drew Merrill's argument for a botanical exploration of Northern Japan, China, Korea and Manchukuo. Dr. Merrill, who is director-in-chief of the New York Botanical Garden, called attention to the fact that native trees of eastern Asia and eastern North America are closely related.*Reason: geological and climatic...
...swing out even further. For a moment, it looked as though the two horses were glued together: as though by shouldering Equipoise, Gallant Sir might throw him off stride and keep his half-length lead. While the crowd roared at the rail, Equipoise got back to his stride, drew even, then ahead two full lengths at the wire...