Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...institutions are entering the tournaments under protest, stating that it is over-commercialization of football, but they agree that the present crisis calls for the making of an exception. The entire plan is an outgrowth of the call issued yesterday by Owen D. Young, Chairman of the President's Committee on the Mobilization of Relief Resources, to all the colleges of the country asking them to play at least one game for charity. At a meeting in New York last Sunday the colleges involved agreed to the plan now adopted...
Deputy Rev. John Howard Melish of Brooklyn who helped write the report pointed out that many of its recommendations were quoted from or based on statements of Gerard Swope, Owen D. Young and Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Nevertheless, upon Deputy Wickersham's complaint the House of Deputies deleted the House of Bishops' recommendation ("representing the mind of the Church"), said merely that the report was "given careful consideration...
...former years, a series of lectures will be given by members of the Board of Governors of the School. Among those to contribute special lectures will be J. Brooks Atkinson '17, John Mason Brown '23, Owen Davis '92, Kenneth MacGowan, 117, Eugene O'Neil, H. T. Parker '89, Gilbert Seldes '14, Robert Sherwood '17, Lee Simonson '08, and Robert Edmond Jones...
...gold last week was Egypt. In London nebulous resentment at the gold standard, nebulous notions that Depression can somehow be cured by tampering not only with the standard but with gold itself as a monetary medium crystalized at a meeting of prominent British merchants. Chief speaker: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen. Sir Hugo is tall, staccato, persuasive. As chairman of British American Tobacco Co. Ltd. he has intimate export contact with that half of the world where coin is not gold or gold-backed paper but silver, the East. Roundly Sir Hugo declared that the gold standard countries of the West...
Significance. There was also a political significance to the Swope speech last week. His good friend and superior is Owen D. Young, also a Democratic presidential possibility. Board Chairman Young was highly enthusiastic about the plan, immediately associated himself with it. Were the plan sufficiently publicized, Chairman Young might make himself popular with Labor. He knows that the possibility of his candidacy is overshadowed in the public mind with the awesome shades of colossally Big Business. But he did not sound like a very confirmed capitalist last week when he said: "We can retain in this country unorganized, individual planning...