Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the U. S. Treasury Department suddenly dropped a dragnet across the land, snared more than 2,000 smugglers, dope peddlers, bootleggers and counterfeiters. Its aims: 1) to test the effectiveness of a nation-wide crime drive; 2) to train Treasury agents in concerted action; 3) to "impress the criminal element with the tremendous Federal powers against them"; 4) to show the nation that the well-publicized Department of Justice is not the only Federal agency that can catch lawbreakers. Pondered since last summer, the drive had been actively planned for a fortnight. One day last week the Treasury...
With undiminished drive and efficiency, Coach Dick Harlow swung into the second day of the Varsity's spring football practice yesterday and gave an hour and a half workout to a squad that had lost some 25 members from Monday's record turnout...
...Steady drive and no wasting time were the watchwords as Harlow took charge of Harvard football in a manner that left no doubt over the tactics the new regime intends to pursue at Soldiers Field. As the new coach himself told the huge mob of candidates that poured into the Briggs Cage at 4.30 o'clock, any man in Harvard can make the team, whether or not he has over played college football before, if he can only prove his ability and his willingness to work...
Skiddy von Stade and Larry Davis provided the scoring drive for the Crimson team, the first scoring seven and the latter six goals. John Roosevelt, although he sent only two shots between the posts, by his skill and strategy at the defense post warded off the Bulldog attacks and limited them to six goals...
...shattered this afternoon when Dick Harlow, Harvard's first non-graduate head coach, inaugurates spring football practice in the Briggs Cage. For the first time in history, not one Crimson grad will be on the staff of instructors that will provide the brain power behind the Varsity's drive for victory...