Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roads to Disaster." AAA's misfortunes have already revived a host of rival farm panaceas. Most popular is the long talked of "domestic allotment" plan, permitting unlimited crop production and assuring producers a profit on that part of their crop consumed in the U.S., the balance to be sold abroad at world prices. At Fort Worth Henry Wallace told cotton farmers that domestic allotment would be a "road to disaster." Bristling on the platform was Texas' Commissioner of Agriculture J.E. McDonald, a champion of domestic allotment. As soon as the Secretary left town, Commissioner McDonald announced he would...
Just how one band "beats" another was not disclosed by leaders of either of the rival organizations, but Charles D. Duffy '39, Crimson manager, declared yesterday, "If anybody defeats us, they'll do it." A huge WELCOME and CORNELL will stretch diagonally across the field tomorrow if all goes well with Duffy and his men. Bob Lannigan '39, who succeeded Bob Snyder '38 as baton-twirler, has recovered from an open blister on his hand from which he was suffering during the Brown game, and is expected to spin a good game...
This year's investigation of education at Harvard in general is expected to rival in importance last year's biggest Council stir, when, in a report issued in May, the Council investigation Committee found that the Social Sciences were being slighted 2-1 in the educational budget. As yet a definite committee for the probject has not been named, but it is understood that the committee will comprise both men on the Council and some from outside...
...produced by Olsen & Johnson) is a cross between a fire in a lunatic asylum and the third clay at Gettysburg. Billed as a "screamlined revue," it roars into action with bullets, bombs and sounds of heavy artillery backstage. Radios blare, sound films boom, gorillas growl, vendors hawk tickets for rival shows, people race across the stage, plunge down the aisles, dive among the audience, ride horseback in boxes...
...musket in the local Indian "war" in 1855, attended Pacific University and became Portland's first librarian. A short article he wrote about Lincoln's assassination interested Pittock, who hired him in 1865. But five years later they disagreed over politics, and Scott went to the rival Bulletin, later serving as Collector of Customs. In 1877, he returned to the Oregonian to stay. Combining immense physical vigor with wide knowledge and a penetrating intellect, Scott was the Oregonian to thousands who never heard of Pittock. In 1933 his statue in bronze was set up in Portland...