Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messrs. Bridges, Curran and Mervyn Rathbone (American Communications Association) rose to demand i) copies of that important document, and 2) a clause prohibiting discrimination against union members because of political beliefs (i.e., Communism). They did not get their clause, but they did delay debate until copies were distributed next...
...President this year was Orval Adams of the Utah State National Bank, Salt Lake City. In the three years since he rose on the convention floor to propose that bankers boycott U. S. bonds, Orval Adams has rarely missed a chance to snipe at the New Deal. Last week was no exception. Warning of a trend toward fascism or national socialism, he sombrely declared in his opening address: "To recapture control in Federal spending is the most vital issue confronting this great democracy. . . ." He then introduced RFC Chairman Jesse Jones as "a conservative" who had been "a tower of strength...
...biggest day's trading (3,100,000 shares) on the New York Stock Exchange since Oct. 21, 1937, National Steel rose 42 points, Du Pont 4 points, both reaching new highs for the year, 151¼. Close behind was Bethlehem Steel with a 3¾-point advance. U. S. Steel rose 3¼-points, Chrysler 2½. The New York Times index of 50 stocks made a net gain of 2.52 points, biggest post-election-day advance since the index was started 27 years ago. Two hundred and one stocks hit new 1938 highs...
...Wilson broke away from all but Macdonald to make a first down on the Crimson 37-yard stripe, and again in the early part of the fourth period when a succession of runs and Anderson-Snavely passes put the pellet on Harvard's 21. On both occasions the Crimson rose and held, the second threat ending when Don Daughters, playing his top game of the year, smothered Anderson before he could get off on an end-zone heave...
...Pacific Coast Conference titans had experienced any nightmares at the thought of inviting Pitt's famed "dream team" to the Rose Bowl, it was relieved at what happened in Pittsburgh last week. In an upset far more shocking than that in California, a well coordinated Carnegie Tech machine that had been lying in ambush for a 25th-anniversary meeting with its mighty neighbor, overpowered the Pitt powerhouse, 20-to-10, toppled it from the pedestal where it was basking in a record of 22 games without defeat. Thus the two outstanding power teams of the U. S. tumbled...