Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corporation voted last April to establish an endowment fund for athletics which they would endeavor to build up during the years to a point where the income would largely support intercollegiate and intramural sports...
...substitute and Mr. Hoover thought the time was opportune to steal a march on the New Deal by getting in a bit of constructive criticism. Said he: "Instead of trying to find a balance to Agriculture by paying the farmer to curtail a crop, we should endeavor to expand another crop which can be marketed or which would improve the fertility of the soil. We import vast quantities of vegetable oils, sugar and other commodities. . . . We need to replenish our soils with legumes and restore coverages. ... I believe we must be prepared to subsidize directly such special crops until agriculture...
...Daniel Alfred ("Call Me Dan") Poling is world president of the biggest Protestant youth organization (Christian Endeavor), editor of the most influential U. S. church magazine (Christian Herald), director of the phil anthropic Penney Foundation, a brisk weekly radiorator and ringing champion of Youth. "Dan" Poling's parents were Oregon pioneers. He came early by his robust, gladsome Christianity. Aged 11, he perched on the rear axle of William Jennings Bryan's carriage as the Commoner, stumping Oregon, drove into his county. When Bryan finished his speech he leaned beneath his carriage, shook hands with the spellbound...
Announcements of impending events in the world of music and the dance, advance information on programmatic matters and other available tid-bits of aesthetic interest will be the weekly fare of this budding column. It will endeavor to present, honestly and with decorum, such advance "dope" as it hopes will interest local devotees of Music...
...endeavor to build up Kansas' Governor Alf M. Landon as a GOPossibility by creating around him the legend of a penny-pinching "Coolidge of Kansas." there have been impressed on the public mind as his two chief qualifications for the Presidency the facts that he: 1) has "balanced" Kansas' budget; 2) makes nickel bets on University of Kansas football games. Last week a shrewd publicity stroke added one more fact to the Landon Legend. Discovering that his 10,000 Happy New Year cards were so large that they required 1½? stamps, Governor Landon had the printer shave...