Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spencer Churchill last week, and told him that, despite his burning Tory opposition, the Reform Bill, granting a considerable measure of self government to India, was very close to passage. But all his life the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill has been a fighter. Sprawled on the front row Ministers' Bench last week he suddenly arose and addressed the Speaker...
...stevedore of Stevedore is a big taffy-colored buck named Lonnie (Jack Carter). A white woman has a row with her burly lover which ends by his choking her and knocking her down. Her hysterical screams bring a crowd. Unwilling to implicate her lover, she babbles that a Negro attacked her. Among the colored folk arrested for questioning is Lonnie. Unlike the other dejected crows in the lineup, big Lonnie refuses to drool servilely: "Yassuh, cap'n. . . . Nawssuh. cap'n. . . . Dat's right, cap'n. . . ." He has been helping a white labor organizer recruit a stevedores...
Eliot and Winthrop came out victorious in the inter-House tennis matches run off yesterday afternoon on the couris behind the Business School. The Puritans chalked up their second victory in a row by swamping the Brooks House team by a score of 5-2, with only one of the matches being defaulted, this time by the Brooks men, while the Elephants managed to eke out a 4-3 win over the Adams House aggregation. No matches had to be decided by the flip of a coin, as has been the case before, since all the games were over before...
Roger Drury will be able to row again tomorrow as stroke of the third crew but he is going to have a strong battle to displace Bill Burton who has been filling that position while Rog has been recovering from an infected hand. Burton is certainly of Varsity calibre, and it will call for all of the younger Drury's skill to show better performance...
...Last week the Post's editor, Dr. Ernest Henry Omening, famed liberal, resigned after a row with Publisher Stern...