Word: furlough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bout was the 50th in a row which 220-lb., 22-year-old Danno Aloysius O'Mahoney has won since he arrived in the U. S. last December. A soldier in the Irish Free State Army, he was discovered in Dublin by a Boston entrepreneur, came here on furlough. Before Danno O'Mahoney has an undisputed claim to the title, he must defeat Ed Don George, still recognized as Champion in Canada and several states...
...into shape slowly due to a pulled muscle. Draper of U. S. C. has also done 9.6 in competition. In the 200, it is the same story, with Anderson and Draper each claiming a 21 second flat race, and Pollock has a 21.2 time credited to him in the furlough. The best time in the East this season is the 21.7 made by Scallan of Cornell. In the 400 meter run, Blackman of the Polo Alto school, and McCarthy of U. S. C. have both done 47.9, and Cassin, also of the Trojans has done 48 fiat, LuValle former University...
...Weiner, a public school teacher, went to her classroom, taught her moppets as usual. When she had finished, she proceeded to a hospital, bore a child. For this performance the City's Board of Education, whose bylaws require a teacher to begin a two-year, payless furlough as soon as she is aware of pregnancy, last week fined Teacher Weiner $300. Teacher Weiner's reported defense: not until the baby arrived did she know that she was pregnant...
...between the conflicting commands of Kerensky. Kornilov and the Bolsheviks. Gregor did not know what to do with his loyalty. When his regiment broke up he joined the Red Guards, but shooting down men of his own blood went I against his grain. He took the excuse of a furlough for wounds to go home and stay i there. Soon the Cossacks, their local ! patriotism roused by an invasion of the Reds, were forced willy-nilly into savage civil war, with Cossack massacring Cossack. But Gregor had had enough, took no part in this suicidal killing. Returned to his wife...
...races, I hope. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., member of Harvard's Freshman crew, sent that telegram last week to White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. When the President saw the message he sent Sub-Secretary Early to the War Department, arranged that Yale Oarsman Livingston should be allowed furlough from camp in order to row. Father Franklin will watch Son Franklin row on the Thames next week...