Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such were the scores of the two games that ended Yale's unsuccessful 1933 football season during which a Yale graduate (26) named Reginald Root coached the team...
...week after the season ended, the New York Herald Tribune carried a story by Sportswriter Stanley Woodward to the effect that Coach Root might be replaced at Yale in 1934. Barflies in Manhattan's Yale Club, it appeared, had suggested as his successor Michigan's young Harry Kipke. The Tribune's story was picked up the same night by the New York Times. Next day. United Press sent out of Chicago a story that Coach Kipke had been approached by Yale with a job offer. Because Yale football policy has always been against non-graduate coaches...
...Women's Christian Temperance Union. Under the leadership of their world president, Mrs. Ella A. Boole, who looked charming in a subdued black silk dress and a black hat with the white badge of the organization affixed to her shoulder, these courageous women planned a new crusade to root out the many evils which have flocked in with the Democrats and the Depression. Chief among these, of course, is the return of the nefarious liquor traffic: but Mrs. Boole and her cohorts are alive to this sinister menace, nor are they daunted by the fact that it has already made...
...felt that a simple reopening of the budget by the Legislature was all that was now needed. As to charter reform, he had already, in his annual message, recommended a charter commission composed of Alfred E. Smith, onetime Governor Nathan L. Miller, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Elder Statesman Elihu Root. To the Governor's proposals Mayor LaGuardia had a ready reply, which he delivered two days later with good humor but with equal vehemence: "It is difficult to find a distinction between the conditions of [the bankers'] agreement and any equity receivership. ... It imposes upon the city...
...public utterances -your industry has provided a simple remedy in the shape of a little knob. . . I only wish that all other matters could be dispensed with so easily." Elected an honorary life member of the New York Evening Sun's Sun Club was Elder Statesman Elihu Root, 88. onetime (1905-09) Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1912). onetime Sun dramatic critic, onetime Sun attorney. He accepted a .silver card of membership, commented: "This makes me a bimetallist...