Word: refered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideals of truth and freedom so dear to America . . ." It should impart a pleasing glow to the heart of every Harvard man to know that the Senate of the United States does not consider his university a hot-bed of red agitation, even if the Massachusetts legislature does. We refer the representative from Dorchester to Messrs Roosevelt, Garner, and Byrns, who are choosing the commission, for a certificate of Harvard's virtue...
...need for cutting down on expenditures and appearing to be genuinely interested in the renascence of what Republican historians refer to as a "balanced budget", has been drilled into the consciousness of the Congress for some time. Less spending, less appropriations, less deficits, less "extraordinary" expenditures;--all these have now become the key note of congressional legislation. The President, far from being bitterly disappointed over the treatment afforded his brain-children, has realized for some time that there is a strong sentiment in the direction of economy, and is probably delighted that this pre-election liability is off his mind...
Sirs: Your account of the Pittsburgh flood [TIME, March 30] is excellent. I expected it would be. One little error has crept in. This is not surprising for the same error appeared in one of the Pittsburgh dailies. I refer to the statement that guests of the Roosevelt Hotel were marooned without food or water. In justice to the hotel management, I believe this should be corrected. As one of the 575 guests during the flood I know that, working under great difficulties, the hotel served meals regularly, plenty of good plain food. To cook it they were obliged...
...meant to call all Filipinos savages-"but there are savages everywhere." Finally he urged his com patriots to "avoid occasions for rebuke" and sent a copy of his reply to Judge Lazarus accompanied by a note saying, "I cannot believe that you had in any way in tended to refer to my people as a whole...
...against which the U. S. Table Tennis Association, currently headed by Cartoonist Carl Zeisberg of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, revolted three years ago. Table Tennis Topics, official magazine of the Association, will not print the words ping pong, uses the scorn ful abbreviation ''P.P." when forced to refer to it. In Europe the game has more prestige than it enjoys in the U. S. Five thousand spectators watched Miss Aarons win the world's championship. Crowds almost as large cheered her in London. Vienna, Budapest. Although the best Philadelphia could muster was a picayune...