Word: pillared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...none of the scruples that make the life of a Yale athletic director so miserable, has solved her coaching problem to the beaming satisfaction of all except a few disgruntled but gracious Kay-dots. "I have come to the conclusion that football is more than a game," that pillar of the Boston Transcript, Mr. George C. Carens, quotes Dartmouth's President Ernest M. Hopkins as saying in justification of the Big Green's attack on the United States Army. "I think football is a symbol." President Hopkins is right, Football is a symbol. It is a symbol...
...automobiles, a Wild West show (101 Ranch), a floodlighted tennis court. When he was arrested for forging nearly $1,000,000 worth of municipal bonds (TIME, Aug. 21) he precipitated a scandal such as few Kansans have ever begotten. But when his father, Warren Wesley Finney, bank president and pillar of Emporia society, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to from 36 to 600 years in jail (TIME, Dec. 11), it looked as if for once Ronald Finney was to be outdone...
...Cambridge correspondent, in a recent letter from that seat of English glory, passes on the current gossip about the gloomy Dean Inge. At one time, when the famous churchman was writing for a London paper, a friend asked him: "Shall I address you as a pillar of the Church of England, or as two columns of the Evening Standard?" This story, we are told, is the very life and breath of the swank wine parties of the Colleges at the moment...
...squared off at critics of his recovery program like Keith Neville of Nebraska (see p. 11). "Ninety per cent, of complaints come from misconception. For example, it has been said that NRA has failed to raise the price of wheat and corn and hogs. . . ." He reminded people that the "pillars" of recovery were the NRA for industry, the A. A. A. for agriculture. Another pillar, "the money of the country in the banks of the country," was the subject of his unexpected, newsmaking conclusion. He promised a "sound managed currency" based on the equivalent of an exchange equalization fund...
...final form before it was sent to the White House. "I want everybody to have a crack at it," said the General. Mr. Whiteside recommended that the price-fixing clause be approved. Onetime member of the War Industries Board and now president of Dun & Bradstreet, Mr. Whiteside is a pillar of the NRA and in line for head of one of the four permanent divisions. A sallow, bristle-haired credit man of 50, he handled the shipbuilding, woolen goods and underwear codes...