Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At the urging of Herbert Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc. (see p. 7), last Sunday was made Finland Day in many a U. S. State and city. The nation's most famed Protestant preacher, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, composed a prayer for the occasion:
While the Hall of Fame's curator prepared a niche for Immortal Gehrig's plaque alongside Immortal Babe Ruth's (his old teammate), a handful of U. S. high-school kids prepared last week to do-or-die for the Lou Gehrig Cup. Emblematic of the national...
In 1928, when enough women took up the game to make competition exciting, Eleo (as she is known in swish circles) won the first national squash racquets championship for women. The following year, she held famed Professional Walter Kinsella, world's squash tennis champion from 1914-26, to a...
Before she took up squash, Spinster Sears was a topflight tennis player, won the national doubles title four times (with
Governor Eurith D. Rivers proclaimed a Statewide holiday, prepared to call out the National Guard. Atlanta's Mayor William B. Hartsfield proclaimed a three-day festival. To Georgia it was like winning the battle of Atlanta 75 years late, with Yankee good will thrown in and the direct assistance...