Word: rosier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railroads after the 1929 crash it has been all famine. After four years of famine, Baldwin was so short of working capital that in 1935 it went into reorganization. But last week it had more than $30,000,000 worth of orders on the books, and things looked far rosier-but not for locomotives...
...others. Ordinary softball parks seat 4,000, cost $3,500 to build and, with 10? admissions attracting crowds from 1,000 to capacity, may pay for themselves in a month. Principal rival to the American Association is the National Association, run by a onetime baseballer and sportswriter named Philip Rosier. Next year, Promoter Rosier plans a big-league circuit, with professional teams in nine Midwestern cities...
...that the Government is willing to let the Greek people vote on whether they want a republic or a monarchy. Greek politicians hastened to climb on the monarchist bandwagon. And George II dodged mysteriously and importantly around Paris and London, letting underlings whisper to newshawks, "The future looks much rosier...
...participate in politics ... as the champion of great and fundamental issues. . . ." Getting down to cases. Professor John Kelley Norton of Columbia's Teacher's College beat a dead horse when he flayed the banker who was supposed to evade taxes and starve education. Retiring Presi dent Joseph Rosier let fly at the R. F. C. for refusing loans to schools while lending millions to insurance and railroad companies. Almost as pugnacious as the speeches were the convention's resolutions: 1) against political interference with teacher appointments; 2) for a nation-wide investigation of anti-education "taxpayers...
Next in Chicago convened the National Education Association. Retiring President Joseph Rosier Leduoff: "When as a condition of making loans, the banking interests of Chicago, Boston, New York or any other community attempt to tell the educational authorities how to run their schools, they are stepping outside their sphere." Said NEA's Publications Director Joy Elmer Morgan: "America is in the midst of a struggle between Democracy and the caste system fostered by the great financial czars. . . ." On and on it went...