Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue in the United States today, and there is no reason why Harvard University should stand aloof and hide behind some technicality as a reason for not joining every other large university in permitting their teams to compete in post-season games for the unemployment fund, as suggested by Owen D. Young, Chairman of President Hoover's Committee on Relief, fund mobilization...
...move to make football combat Depression reached official status last week when Owen D. Young, chairman of the President's committee to mobilize relief resources, asked all U. S. football-playing colleges to devote the receipts of one game, regular or postseason, to unemployment relief. In the East, two football "tournaments" were organized...
...Said Owen D. Young: "This is about the only kind of thing which the students of our schools and colleges can do to aid in the work. . . . The precedent of responding to . . . a national emergency is a good one, and ordinary rules should give way in the face...
...following paragraphs are a summary of the statement issued yesterday by Owen D. Young, chairman of President Hoover's relief committee, on the subject of the different colleges having football games for the benefit of the unemployed...
...Eight of the universities and colleges in the Northeast section of the country have requested me to announce a plan which they have worked out in response to the call on the colleges and schools in the United States made by Mr. Owen D. Young, Chairman of the President's Committee on Mobilization of Relief Resources. The colleges for which I am speaking are Yale, Brown, Holy Cross and Dartmouth in New England; and Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and Pennsylvania in the Middle Atlantic States...