Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among N. Y. U.'s graduates are Baritone Reinald Werrenrath. Composer Deems Taylor, onetime Governor Charles Seymour Whitman, Elder Statesman Elihu Root...
...Indiana's Governor McNutt signed a one-year moratorium whereby no property will be sold for back taxes. ¶ Iowa's Governor Herring appealed by proclamation for a halt on foreclosures until the General Assembly could act. ¶ Distressed agrarians, members of the Root Hog or Die Club, marched to St. Paul, Minn., demanded land tax reductions from Governor Olson. Their story: "We were promised years ago that the gross earnings tax would cut the levy; that the gas tax would cut the levy; that the auto tax would cut the levy. . . . These taxes have never...
...Augustus Trowbridge, Luther Pfahler Eisenhart. Three became headmasters: Emerson Boyd Morrow of Gilman, Louis Wardlaw Miles whom he succeeded, and Charles Hodge Jones of Silver Bay School (New York). Department heads at Princeton are Roger Bruce Cash Johnson (philosophy), Edward Samuel Corwin (politics), Duane Reed Stuart (classics), Robert Kilburn Root (English), Charles Rufus Morey (art & archaeology), Henry Norris Russell (astronomy), Charles Grosvenor Osgood Jr. (formerly English). Department heads elsewhere: Ernest Ludlow Bogart (economics, University of Illinois), George Dwight Kellogg (classics, Union University), Gilbert Ames Bliss (mathematics, University of Chicago), John Wesley Young (mathematics, University of Kansas). John Edward Wallace Wallin...
...come from abroad. The economic collapse developed from domestic folly and the notion that prosperity was about to "abolish poverty." For two years President Hoover minimized Federal deficits, missed his guess as to their total size by about four billion dollars. Public distrust of Treasury policy was at the root of last winter's panic. The President was two years late getting around to budget balancing. Declared Democrat Garner...
...game was as good as over. Pitcher Root was withdrawn and three other Cubs who followed him?Malone, May. Tinning?managed to hold the Yankees down to one more run. The Cubs threatened in the ninth when Gabby Hartnett opened the inning with a homer into the left-field bleachers but Manager McCarthy of the Yankees withdrew Pipgras. sent in Herb Pennock, who played in his first World Series in 1914 and had never lost a World Series game since. Pennock made short work of the next three batters. Score: New York 7, Chicago...