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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compete in the major-league circuit -the 100-odd rodeos sponsored by the R. A. A.-a cowboy must be a better-than-average bronc rider, calf roper, steer wrestler or steer rider. More than that, he must be willing to take a chance. A cowboy on the range gets around $40 a month-with "grub." A rodeo cowboy gets no salary at all. He pays his own traveling expenses, hotel bills, entrance fees (sometimes as much as $100 for one event). If he competes at calf roping, he has to pay the feed bill and transportation cost...
...last few years, loud have been the critics-both faculty and student-about the way Dr. Conant handles men. One after another, popular young teachers have been fired, from Economics Instructors John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy two years ago to Art Instructor Robin D. Feild last spring. Basic reason for the firings was a slump in Harvard's income from its investments, resulting in a tighter budget. But facultymen complained that President Conant was a budget autocrat, that he used a slide-rule formula in dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed...
...killed in action; in 1934, he bought the big sloop Weetamoe for the America's Cup defense, was soundly beaten by both Yankee and Rainbow; besides a fox-hunting estate in Pau, France, he owns a Paris town house, the $2,000,000 "Marble Palace" in Newport, R. I., the 1,000-acre, many-roomed "Princemere" in Pride's Crossing, Mass.; in 1933 he offered to Franklin Roosevelt a plan for reorganizing U. S. railroads into seven regional systems, for a claimed saving of $743,000,000 annually, saw it thrown out because it would involve firing thousands...
Near Oklahoma City, Okla., a truck rolled downhill out of control, snapped off a pole bearing a high-voltage wire, which fell across a metal sign, which touched a barbed wire fence, which set fire to a patch of grass, on which Farmer R. M. W. Cody threw a pail of water, which splashed on the electrified fence, electrocuting Farmer Cody...
WORDS THAT WON THE WAR-James R. Mock & Cedric Larson-Princeton...