Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of the wide publicity given Pitt's freshmen rebellion, football fans observed with special interest last week's game between Pitt and Penn State, For those who feared this may be the last of the great Pitt football teams under Coach Jock Sutherland (three of the famed "dream backfield" men are seniors) there was some solace in the brilliant performance of Halfback Dick Cassiano, lone junior of the harmonious quartet. Almost singlehanded, he scored three touchdowns, all on spectacular open-field runs that went a long way toward blasting an exceptionally good Penn State team...
...York's public schools as Dr. Gulick's committee recommends would cost some $38,000,000. But he contends that the State can save more than $40,000,000-$2,000,000 net-by consolidating rural schools, enlarging their classes to 25 or 30 pupils, reducing interest charges on school building by more rapid debt reduction, and chiefly by eliminating some 8,000 teaching jobs as elementary school enrollments decline because of the falling birth rate...
...eyes of libertarians, who sniffed at the idea that T. C. (current budget: $3,865,000) could not afford this experiment, New College was to be liquidated for too keen an interest in contemporary social problems. Teachers and students also charged that Dean Russell had consulted only his trustees and administrative officers, undemocratically ignored the faculty...
...Papers. During his years in Parliament Lord Beaverbrook did little else except tend his private fortune. In 1917, his appetite for the newspaper business whetted by his work in the Ministry of Information, he bought controlling interest in the doddering Daily Express for $85,500. The same afternoon he had to draw $250,000 more from the bank to pay pressing liabilities. Lord Northcliffe, then at the height of his spectacular career, advised him to stay out of Fleet Street, warned: "You'll lose everything you have." This dare Beaverbrook took...
Lately the Express has also declared: 1) "Palestine . . . is not a British interest"; 2) "There must be a redistribution in Africa sooner or later"; and 3) "There is unrest among the German-speaking people of [Alsace]." This is the kind of Empire that Beaverbrook believes will best serve Britain's future and save its millions of Beaverbrook readers from becoming bomb and bullet fodder. That Lord Beaverbrook does believe in it is almost the only thing that can be said of him without dispute...