Word: rainey
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...Commerce, Novelist Dorothy Canneld Fisher, Newton Diehl Baker and ten others, met with its creator. For it Dr. Zook had two presents which gave his boast solid foundation. One was an $800,000 bankroll, put up by the (Rockefeller-endowed) General Education Board. The other was President Homer Price Rainey of Bucknell University, whom the commission elected as its di rector. Dr. Rainey promptly resigned as Bucknell's president...
Bucknell might have railed at Dr. Zook for stealing its perfectly good president if that Baptist institution had not stolen Dr. Rainey from the presidency of small Franklin College four years ago. Twelve years before that Education had stolen him from professional baseball, a career on which he launched, immediately after his graduation from Austin College (Sherman, Tex.), as star pitcher of the Galveston team in the Texas League. A top-notch tennist, Dr. Rainey has often been seen wandering through the dormitories of whatever college he happened to head, looking for a student to trim. In his four years...
...Wesley Gaines but ever since he has dodged political combat. In 1930 he gave up his ambition to be Senator rather than risk a campaign with Cordell Hull for opponent. In 1933 he gave up his ambition to be Speaker rather than risk a three-cornered fight with Henry Rainey and John McDuffie...
...team, Slade Cutter, fighting as a heavyweight, knocked out Virginia's Fred Cramer in half a minute. Another Navy footballer, George Lambert, outpointed his opponent in three rounds but when the evening was over Virginia's record was intact. Co-captains Bantamweight Archie Hahn and Featherweight Gordon Rainey had beaten Navy men with ease and the final score - after a draw in the 155-lb. class-was 4½-to-3½. For the third consecutive year Virginia had beaten Navy...
...Kunen will probably be shifted up from the 125-pound class and either Kostarelos or Umana will take his place. Kunen's career this year has been marked by a technical knockout over Ewald of M. I. T., a decision over Anderton of Springfield, and a loss to Rainey at Virginia. Kostarelos was undefeated last year as a Freshman 125-pounder...