Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition, the drive has been backed by the State Department through Secretary Cordell Hull; by Dr. Leo S. Rowe, secretary-general of the Pan-American Union in Washington; by Dr. Grant Mason, Head of the Civil Aeronautics Authority; and by prominent industrial and academic leaders in South America...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 has taken a leading hand in the promotion of the drive to raise funds for Latin-American scholarships by writing a strong endorsement of the proposal from the White House, the committee announced today...
...youth Louis Brandeis forced the passage of the social insurance laws through the Massachusetts legislature while his enemies branded him a dangerous radical. Although his dislike of the "red menace" doctrine during the war impaired his chances of appointment to the Supreme Court, he nevertheless courageously regarded the drive as a menace to civil liberties. And once on the high bench, there never was any question of his compromising with what was hostile to his liberal tenets. Rarely did Louis Brandeis agree with his conservative colleagues; because of his celebrated minority opinions, vritten in league with his great contemporary Justice...
Princeton had a very satisfactory visit with the Middles at Annapolis, the result of it all being a world's record in the 200 breaststroke, 20-yard course, for Captain Dick Hough. The Tiger leader did the ten laps in 2:19.8. Other results were a 123-point drive win by Navy's Gibson and a 1:33.2 backstroke victory by Princeton's Al Van de Weghe...
...appeal by the Greater Boston Community Fund campaign Harvard has responded to the tune of $26,000 according to Stanley C. Salmen, assistant to Jerome D. Greene, secretary of the Corporation and chairman of the University drive...