Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While these stirring developments riveted all attention on Washington, the American Bankers Association was holding its 57th annual convention in Atlantic City. The bankers met in two open sessions, nominated new officers, drew up some resolutions, elected the new officers (Harry J. Haas of First National Bank, Philadelphia, president) and quietly returned to their homes to find out what had happened...
Saxon Laborites drew different conclusions: 1) The experiment has proved that thousands of unemployed are not "loafers on the dole" but men pitifully eager to do hardest work for lowest pay; 2) The fact that 120 men eating food bought wholesale and cooked in bulk ate 2 marks 50 pfennigs worth of food per day suggests that this is the minimum cost of adequately feeding adult males. How then can a Saxon on the dole, who only gets two marks per day, adequately feed and lodge himself...
...impressive gain made by the tabloid Mirror could hardly be accounted for by former World readers. And it is a question whether Hearst's evening Journal drew more of its new readers from the late Evening World or the vulgar tabloid Graphic...
...change is The Washingtoman's new General Manager Frederick G. Brownell, onetime editor & publisher of Buffalo Town Tidings, brother-in-law of Editor Peter Yischer of Polo. Mrs. Marion Banister, sister of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, continues as editrix. Newsmen Robert S. Allen, George Abell and Drew Pearson, reputed co-authors of Washington Merry-Go-Round, were reported helping to finance the magazine with their royalties from the book, but that might have been suggested by the fact that Pearson and Abell are announced contributors to the magazine, and that the principal page of chit-chat is headed...
...rivalry, the Dunster House crew trimmed Lowell House by half a length over the three quarter mile course from the Weeks Bridge yesterday afternoon. Although both crews kept the beat low, the Dunster boat managed to hold the Lowell crew at a slower stroke, until, as the finish drew near, he raised it sufficiently to pull away and win the race...