Word: forester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Juggling figures lightly, Secretary Hyde showed that, on the basis of the U. S. Forest Service, a million men could care for an area twelve times the size of the U. S. To acquire title to cut-over and abandoned land on any such scale would, he insisted, "disorganize counties, destroy taxation units, close schools and roads . . . throw more people out of their homes than the New York Governor could employ." According to Secretary Hyde the Roosevelt plan would cost $2,000,000,000, provide work for only 27,900 and break the market on forest products to "Nothing flat...
...School. The Jay Backus Woodworth Fellowship in Geology, given in honor of the late Professor Woodworth by his students, has been awarded to Howard A. Powers, of Brookings, South Dakota. The James Edward Ditson Fund, providing for a travelling fellowship in Music, is given to Jacob M. Coopersmith, of Forest Hills, New York...
...Davis Cup team (Wilmer Allison, Francis Xavier Shields, John Van Ryn): American interzone finals against Brazil, 5 matches to 0; at Forest Hills...
...Wake Forest College LL.D...
...team was eliminated short of the final round. All the U. S. players, none of them high-rated, were soon put out. From the quarter-finals on, the play was almost entirely among unknowns over a deserted course in howling wind & rain. In the finals lucky John De Forest, last year's runner-up, son of Coal Tycoon Baron De Forest, defeated 22-year-old Eric Fiddian 3 & 1 in 6 hrs. 35 min. for the required 36 holes, the longest final in the tournament's history. The two boys were appointed at once to the last...