Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong threat all by himself and he will be supported by several other tank standouts of recent years. Rusty Greenhood, George Scott, and Charley Hutter are some of the men who will be on hand tomorrow night in the Indoor Athletic Building pool for the season's curtain-raiser...
...curtain raiser for the huskers was a plowman's match, an innovation on the program, held on the neighboring Denger farm. The straightest furrows, the neatest turns with a tractor-drawn plow were made by Fred Timbers, who had traveled from Ontario to show what Canadian farmers could do. Fred Timbers became the first international champion of plowmen...
...build new buildings. Despite the efforts of Thomas Sovereign Gates, onetime Morgan partner who has served the university as president since 1930 without pay, of Philadelphia Banker Joseph Wayne Jr., drive chairman, of Thomas I. Parkinson, president of Equitable Life, and of John Price Jones, high-powered professional fund raiser, the drive last week fell far short of its goal. Total raised: $5,035,000. Borne out were recent warnings by President Robert Maynard Hutchins of University of Chicago that U. S. universities faced a decline in gifts. Taking what comfort it could from the fact that 18,000 donors...
...owners of the New York Giants had to give away 5,000 free tickets a week to get people to watch their professional football games. Last week, at Chicago's Soldier Field, 85,000 fans gladly paid up to $4.40 a seat to watch the curtain raiser of the 1940 football season: a night game (for charity) between the Green Bay Packers, national professional champions, and a team of College All-Stars, poll-picked from the recent graduates of U. S. college football...
McAdoo's Mistake. From the U. S. Treasury's standpoint, the excess-profits tax of 1918 was a howling success. Together with the less lucrative war-profits tax, it raised $2,505,566,000 in its first year, was the Treasury's all-time-record money raiser. But it was one of the most unpopular taxes levied in the U. S. since the Boston Tea Party. Years later William Gibbs McAdoo, whose job was to collect it, wrote: "The unpopularity of the bill . . . was undoubtedly the most potent factor in the defeat of the Democrats...