Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buzzing over Dr. Beard's speech, the 8,000 superintendents crowded into the auditorium next day. For them there was no such heady fare. Chairman Jesse Jones of the RFC brought greetings from the White House. President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin came sonorously "out of the no-man's land between old deals and new deals to sound again the bitter cry of the children for a square deal." Dr. Frank and the children wanted more money from the Federal Government. After his speech President Frank seconded Dr. Beard's Hearst-baiting. Then...
...Never before in the United States and nowhere else in the civilized world has a depression been permitted to scuttle the schools and rape the intellectual resources of the national future." Such is the strong, concise language of Dr. Glenn Frank, the able President of the University of Wisconsin. Every individual who maintains the slightest contact with his locality knows the sorry state of the public schools far too well to challenge the truth of this statement. The desperate plight of Chicago was merely the most publicized of many similar instances. All over the country the casual observer will discover...
...Viktor Barna, spry and handsome ping-pong player of Budapest: the world's championship, for the fifth year; after a close match against his clumsier countryman, Miklos Szabados, who injured his right hand by falling; in London. C. Glenn Cunningham, famed Kansas runner: the Baxter Mile, feature event of the annual New York Athletic Club indoor track meet; in 4.09.8, with his two onetime rivals, Gene Venzke and Bill Bonthron, 30 and 40 yards behind; in Manhattan...
...three most famed mile runners in the U. S. are Glenn Cunningham, who holds the world's indoor record of 4:08.4; Bill Bonthron, who last year beat Cunningham in three races out of five; Gene Venzke, who held the record three years ago, last season functioned as pacemaker for the other...
...Jack Manders, also a Bear, is a field goal expert who has only missed one point after touchdown in 31 tries this season. But the majority of able professionals, like Detroit's Earl ("Dutch") Clark, who has scored 73 points this season, Philadelphia's Swede Hanson and Detroit's Glenn Presnell, were unknown nationally until they took to the gridiron for money...