Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amid applause) spoke President Hoover last week to the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States whose board chairman, Julius Rowland Barnes, headed the President's National Business Survey Conference after the stockcrash...
Stubbornly shaking his head, George Rowland Blades, Baron Ebbisham, onetime (1926-27) Lord Mayor of London and Alderman for the Ward of Bassishaw, was the only dissenting member of a board of five which last week enthusiastically endorsed the long-shelved project to build a 20-odd-mile tunnel under the English Channel, connect London and Paris by rail. Not so Lord Ebbisham. Pressed for reasons, he contented himself with remarking ominously: "The displacement of sailors on the Cross-Channel Route would be regrettable...
...yard medley swim on Saturday Harms, Fordham's only entrant in this week's meet, placed first, with Meriam of Pennsylvania second and his team mate Rowland third. Wohl of Syracuse was winner in the 50-yard back stroke, with Arnold of Brown second, and Harms third...
...entered four men led by its great middle distance swimmer Ray Ruddy. Ruddy will compete in the 440-yard free style and 220-yard free style. J. Dolgos has been entered in the 50 and 100-yard free style and Parnell Callahan in the 200-yard breast stroke, George Rowland will swim in the 300-yard medley...
Squash. Red walled court; racquet like a tennis racquet but smaller, rounder; ball like a tennis ball but heavier, faster. Before young Harry Wolf got on the court with Rowland Haines to play for the National Amateur Squash Tennis Championship, Rowland Dufton, the professional at the New York Athletic Club, taught him a special stroke to use in that one match -a stroke which Dufton said would win for him. It was a drive straight into the front wall corners that skidded off the back wall and dropped dead. "Mix it up with a soft game," Dufton advised him. "Hyde...