Word: purs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spokane, Wash. (U.P.)--The collegiate spirit prevailed when small towns that dot the inland empire were first named. Across the Idaho-Washington state line in heavily timbered country are seven tiny villages, named by a group of college students. Their names are Wellesley, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Pur due, and Stanford...
Whooping like their warrior ancestors, the Indians rode their own cayuses in hot pur suit of the outlaws, chased them out of deep canyons into trap corrals, where long fences led them into bottlenecks...
...Congress is a lusty two-year-old offspring of the International Federation of League of Nations Societies. Its pur poses: to exchange youths' ideas, educate them for international cooperation, rally them to united action for preventing war. To carry out this ambitious program the first World Youth Congress in 1936 opened a one-room office in Geneva, installed there as international secretary a 23-year-old British delegate, small, brown-eyed, comely Elizabeth Shields-Collins, daughter of an East Indian trader. Miss Collins and her collaborator. Michael Wallace, son of the late British Author Edgar Wal lace, did their...
...frenzied passion you have violated the law, insulted the dignity and decency of the State of Ohio, endangered the lives and property, and overwhelmed this peaceable and quiet community by your indefensive course of conduct. . . . No labor union in our land approves or condones the erratic course you have pur sued. You do not represent union labor in its struggles and aspirations. You represent a wayward and unstable element of society...
...formally adopted by the company's directors years ago were the 15 points of Armco policy, starting off with a declaration of high business ethics, winding up with a pru dent word about making good banking connections "in advance of their need" and liberally interlaced with such pur poses as the promotion of "Americanism and a real, live spirit of patriotism." Confused though its policies may seem, Armco is a money-making proposition, old Mr. Verity writing his 20,000 stockholders last week that 1936 earnings were $6,441,000, an improvement over...