Word: extended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...definitely recognizable counter-development has appeared; the extension of aroused professionalism into fields where amateur sport had acquired the professional atmosphere--though not its frankness. In both football and tennis Mr. Pyle has done inestimable service to amateurism. Rumor has had it that this indefatigable promoter will extend his field of activity to include track, which has certainly sorely needed elastic treatment...
That the A.A.U. has learned a lesson from what has happened to travelling tennis performers is evidenced by the action taken yesterday. It may be that further expressions of a returning sanity will make it unnecessary for Mr. Pyle to extend his purging process further with a travelling troupe containing Messrs. Nurmi, Paddock, Hoff, and their jlk. At any rate, evidence is accumulating that amateur athletics are being restored to a common sense boats...
...Convened for the sixth time to extend for the sixth time the Emergency Powers Act made necessary by the coal strike (TIME...
...Committee of Welcome and Mrs. Vincent Astor, personal representative of Mayor Walker of New York, boarded the Leviathan at quarantine from the municipal steamer Macon and welcomed Queen Marie in the name of the city. Followed J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, on a revenue cutter to extend the President's greetings. A third delegation of "personal friends of Queen Marie," likewise on the cutter, included Judge ("U. S. Steel") Gary and Samuel ("Sam") Hill of Seattle, Wash., potent railroader, who extended to Queen Marie the invitation to dedicate his Seattle museum, "Maryhill" which provides the technical reason...
...leader of the Senate, rushed to the White House with alarm on his lips. Cotton had dropped 40 to 50 points (TIME, Oct. 4), following the publication of the Department of Agriculture's estimate of a superabundant crop. Forthwith, President Coolidge announced that the Farm Labor Board would extend a $30,000,000 credit to co-operative marketing associations which had been hit by the slump in cotton prices. The next day, the President appointed Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Jardine and Eugene Meyer Jr., Managing Director of the War Finance Corp., as a commission to devise orderly methods of selling...