Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor that Col. Lindbergh intended to come home started a few weeks ago in St. Louis. Major Albert Bond Lambert, one of the backers of the 1927 flight, announced that he had received a letter in which the Colonel said he hoped to be in St. Louis "very soon." A New York Times reporter named Lauren Lyman, who acted as Colonel Lindbergh's "go-between" with the press during the Hauptmann trial and later broke the news of the Lindbergh decision to live abroad, has been the newspaper world's best authority on all Lindbergh activities. Transferred...
...guarded ground, the Japanese commander promptly ordered their withdrawal. Same night a representative of the victorious Japanese commander in chief at Shanghai, long-eared General Iwane Matsui, visited the scene of the bombing, and there under the dim glow of street lights promised the Settlement police commissioner, British Major F. W. Gerrard, to withdraw at once all Japanese forces from the 30 square block area, leave further investigation of the bomb outrage to the Shanghai Municipality...
...Office in London last week, stepped one by one into the private office of Leslie Hore-Belisha and handed in their resignations. Almost immediately came word that 50 other general officers had been passed over to make way for new Chief of the Imperial General Staff Major General John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker Viscount Gort...
...these major games next Fall were broadcast, many people living in New England would develop an early interest in Harvard football, and after hearing several of them on the air, might be inclined to see one or two later in the season. Several authorities in New Haven believe that this added interest on the part of the general public has helped the Yale gate-receipts to a very marked degree. Should the same situation develop here, part of this added revenue might also be turned over to the Endowment Fund...
...highly unfortunate that the University has decided to keep Harvard's major games off the air, as many graduates and undergraduate will be very disappointed, and a splendid chance to augment the Endowment Fund has been unwisely passed...