Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collectors have been appointed in every entry, but in case a student is not visited and wishes to donate something, he is asked to get in touch with Edward T. Ladd '38, the director of the drive...
...Whitney, in his letter to you printed today, implies that the drive for funds to pay for an ambulance to be sent to Spain is only a guise by which radicals are collecting money for some devious purpose of their...
...between the Dominions and the mother country at the Imperial Conference at Ottawa in 1932. Since then Canada has signed a reciprocal trade treaty with the U. S. and Secretary Hull has been pressing Stanley Baldwin with requests for a reciprocal treaty with Great Britain, a maneuver which would drive a disrupting wedge into Ottawa's "Buy Empire" philosophy. Also on Secretary Hull's list are Australia, whose unfavorable trade balance with the U. S. has lately been relieved by increased sales of wool, and South Africa, whose recent boom was largely financed by the U. S. Treasury...
...Samuel D. Riddle's three-year-old race horse War Admiral, ridden by seasoned Jockey Charley Kurtsinger: the 47th Preakness Stakes, for a prize of $45,600; by a head, after a neck & neck drive against Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon, whom he outran by almost two lengths in last fortnight's Kentucky Derby; at Pimlico racetrack, Baltimore, Md. ¶ Marshall Eldredge, 36-year-old East Weymouth, Mass, mechanic: the tenth annual 130-mi. Albany to New York boat race, No. 1 event of the year for outboards; at 41.7 m.p.h.; in a Jacoby Flyaway Special...
...papers had been taken from him and he could not produce them in court. Their evidence would not have affected the verdict, thinks Author Wilkins. The British Admiralty was determined to make an example of him. Reason: India's Great Mogul, tired of English pirates, had threatened to drive out the East India Co. from his domain unless some scapegoats were hanged. For some unexplained reason, Kidd did not try to implicate his backers, who for their part sacrificed him without a qualm. So Kidd's life was ended at 56, and his immortal notoriety begun...