Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he planned soon to announce plans for starting a nationwide housing program financed by private capital and that the plans would include naming an outstanding capitalist, someone like U. S. Steel's Edward Stettinius Jr. or General Electric's Gerard Swope, to head the drive...
...just turned pro. At the end of the outward nine holes Youngster Poe led Harrison, 37 to 39. Square at the 15th, Harrison was one stroke behind at the 16th. But the pressure was too much for Youngster Poe. On the par four 18th he hooked his drive and came off with a five. Harrison shot a birdie three, winning $250 first money...
...made a name for herself in prison reform as secretary of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. Miss Jaffray is also much interested in women's club work and for the past year or two she has been the spearhead of a women's club drive which last week had the rayon industry seething with excitement. For Miss Jaffray has publicized her sex's textile troubles so completely that the Federal Trade Commission has just issued a set of rules causing headaches to everyone in the rayon business...
Over the $25,000 gateway to Northwestern University's downtown Chicago Campus at Lake Shore Drive and Superior St. is a wrought iron sign. Last June workmen chiseled out of it the word "campus," substituted the word "gates." Then it read Alexander McKinlock Memorial Gates. Few people noticed the change, however, and not until last week did Northwesterners learn that their university's famed McKinlock Campus had been renamed the Chicago Campus...
George McKinlock pledged $250,000 to Northwestern in 1921 to buy nine acres on Lake Shore Drive for a campus for professional schools,* to be a memorial to his son, Lieut. George Alexander McKinlock Jr., who was killed by a German ma-chine gun near Soissons in 1918. Later he added to his gifts to Northwestern, donated some $500,000 all told. He also gave $500,000 for a freshman dormitory at Harvard, which his son had attended...