Word: earns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reach Berea, Ky., and a social project dear to her heart. She dined with Berea College's president, kindly, 63-year-old William James Hutchins, father of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins. The elder Hutchins gives mountain boys and girls a higher education, helps them to earn their living while getting it, makes them take baths and brush their teeth...
Last week as soon as appointed they promptly sat down with Mr. McGrady to earn their fee. Their first plea was for a 24-hour armistice between shippers and strikers. It came at a crucial moment, just as San Francisco businessmen threatened to send in strike breakers and open the port. If the port were opened by such forcible methods everyone knew it would be a signal for riot and bloodshed. The board found just one big point still in dispute: Should employers or the union run the "hiring halls," where will be drawn up the lists from which stevedores...
...Henry Chapman, 35-are sons of the late Representative Harry C. Woodyard of West Virginia. In 1920 a business dispute dumped the Spencer, W. Va. Times-Record into Congressman Woodyard's lap. Father Woodyard put his sons to work on the paper. They liked it, made it earn money. Five years later they acquired a second weekly, then a third, fourth, fifth...
With few exceptions the Canadian Press attacked Lord Bessborough last week. They pointed- out that to earn his keep a governor general has only to attend the functions to which he is invited and keep his temper. Only critic of Lord Bessborough to surfer was a radio announcer known as Uncle Al, who launched into an impassioned defense of Mary Pickford on the Gooderham & Worts whiskey hour...
...prizes and 600 points toward the U. S. auto-racing championship which is awarded each year by the American Automobile Association to the driver who compiles the best record in official races. Race drivers who compete in short dirt track races not sanctioned by the A. A. A. may earn as much as $4,000 a year. Drivers good enough to get regular backing in such important races as those at Indianapolis, Oakland, Detroit and Syracuse, may earn up to $15,000 a year in prizes. Winning the Indianapolis Classic often means a job with a manufacturer. Tommy Milton...