Word: major
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senator Vandenberg went the public credit of insistently driving this measure through a reluctant Senate. It was his first major activity since coming to the Senate a year ago. Born in Grand Rapids 45 years ago, at the age of 22 Senator Vandenberg became the editor-publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald, a position he held until he became a Senator. A bookish man behind large spectacles, he writes with more force than he speaks. His speeches in behalf of reapportionment in the Senate were marked with more constitutional zeal than oratorical brilliance. His chief address brimmed with these phrases...
President Hoover established oil conservation as a major policy of his administration when he ordered an end to permits for drilling on Government land, and to renewals of lapsed oil leases (TIME, March 25). This official step encouraged the oil industry, as represented by the American Petroleum Institute, to believe that it had a friend in the White House who would smile upon its own efforts to hold down production. Confronted with an enormous output and low prices, operators agreed among themselves to plug their production for 1929 at the 1928 level. They asked the Federal Oil Conservation Board...
...experiences during the War and immediately after persuaded him of the need. He was the first U. S. officer to fly over the German lines, was chief of the U. S. air service for the group of armies in the Argonne offensive, and shared in practically all the major A. E. F. operations. He was in more engagements than any other U. S. officer. For War and prior Army service he has a great battery of ribbons and medals...
However, when he accepted his position at Syracuse it was with the understanding that swimming was to be made a major sport, and since no change has been made up to the present time, he feels at liberty to resign his post and take up his coaching elsewhere. When the Athletic Governing Board ignored raising the standard of swimming as a Hill sport at Tuesday's meeting, Ulen apparently felt that he was under no obligation whatsoever. As a result, Syracuse is losing a man who has been invaluable as a producer of swimmers and swimming teams, and the entire...
...Black Watch (Fox). One more of those English officers torn between love and patriotism goes back to his regiment on New Year's Eve a gentleman and a major. Victor McLaglen's inexperience as an interpreter of erotic reactions is made up for by Myrna Loy and by photography of the Khyber Pass and its adjacent wastes that is much too good for the story. Best shot: The tribesmen mobilizing...