Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last of these the spotlight of unpleasant publicity last week centered. It was discovered that this association was headed by one A. Moulton Pettey, an income tax auditor in the Treasury, and that its drive for funds was headed by a professional promoter, one A. Winslow Lowell, working on commission. It appeared further that Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and close friends believed that the enterprise would be a failure and left the project strictly alone, although saying nothing. Mr. Pettey did not know Mr. Wilson, had never met him, but once (as a stenographer) had taken down a speech he made...
...Kane '22, Head Proctor at Gore, has indicated that should the drive for funds prove successful at Standish, attempts would also be made to secure the support of former Gore residents...
Starting against Yale the same team that crushed Harvard last week, Princeton makes its final drive for the Big Three championship at New Haven this afternoon...
...physicians who practice a lifetime in the U. S., 40% die incapacitated and without money.* Therefore, the Physicians' Home, Inc., began a drive last week to establish a home for aged, indigent physicians. Dr. Charles H. Mayo of Rochester heads the committee of sponsors. The first unit of the home was started four years ago' at Caneadea...
...many years ago, thinks Lampy, there would have been a small committee to insert the too-terpsichorean freshman gently in his hansom cab, and start him firmly on the long, slow drive to Cambridge. The old order changeth, but Lampy wishes merely to caution, and advise moderation to the many popular stalwarts by the Charles...