Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hotel to recruit members for his National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, and asked Dr. Emerson to speak. About 75 prominent Manhattan physicians were invited to come and bring as guests four of their wealthiest or most influential patients. The committee solicited money from doctors and friends, promised in return to work for the defeat of the "dangerous, menacing" Wagner bill...
Main purposes of the plan are to check fascist lawlessness by cutting off war materials; to build up a reserve of these materials in the United States without further drain on the national budget; and to get some return on our war debts...
...strings are tied to National Youth Administration aid. Those who benefit must be in such great need that without it they could not attend college; and they must be in good standing scholastically. Beyond this there is nothing. Methods of administration; the nature and amount of work required in return; the choosing of recipients--all these are solely in the hands of the University. Even to Harvard--traditionally terrified by anything smacking of government interference--such terms must appear generous and straightforward. Ninety-eight per cent of all the nation's schools eligible to receive aid, including Yale and even...
...engaging hero, red-headed Ray Talcott, son of an Illinois storekeeper, was only 13 when he headed West. He was equipped with a fish line, jackknife, agate shooter, $13, a strong will not to return until he was big enough to thrash his browbeating father. His adventures along the way might have been told by Mark Twain -capture by a mean reward-hunter, whose precocious daughter petted him, stole his $13; escape and recapture and escape again; apprenticeship to a kindly windbag who dyed Ray's hair black, stained his face, billed him in his medicine show as Little...
Misfortune overtook Jim Curwen in the 100 free-style. Coming into his turn at the halfway mark, he spun without touching the wall and had to return to make contact, losing two body lengths in the process. He turned on the heat for his final fifty but his qualifying time of 55.4 was too slow to place him in the finals. Yale Captain Johnny Good took the final in the fine time of 52.7, eclipsing the meet record of 53 flat set by Charlie Hutter last year, and thus ending his career in Payne Whitney Pool with his best time...