Word: rumsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week Mrs. Charles Carey Rumsey, daughter of the late great Banker-Railroader Edward Henry Hardman, announced that through her Co-operative Agricultural Organization Society she was about to send 50 farm-wise metropolitan families upstate to wrest their living from the land. If the project proved successful, she had some land of her own in Virginia to colonize with other jobless...
When Governor James Rumsey Beverley advocated birth control to check the fast-growing population of Puerto Rico he stirred up a wasp's nest of indignation. But Puerto Ricans regard Nature's population-reducing visits with fatalistic equanimity. Every few years a hurricane kills a few hundred of them, destroys their homes and crops. They name the hurricane for the saint on whose day it occurred, then forget about it. When on the day of San Eusebio last week the sea became still under a windless sky, natives were suddenly reminded of the hours preceding the hurricane of San Felipe...
...University riders, generally rated as the poorest team in the tournament on the basis of their previous record, have thus far staged an extraordinary comeback, featuring Nicholas, Dillingham, and Rumsey as the backbone of the team. Dillingham has just been getting back into form after a long illness during the winter...
...summary: HARVARD PRINCETON Rumsey, No. 1 No. 1, Freeman Nicholas, No. 2 No. 2, Firestone Dillingham, No. 3 No. 3, Kemmerer Cook, back back, Thomas...
Score--Harvard 11, Princeton 7. Goals--Dillingham 5, Rumsey 3, Nicholas 1, Firestone 3, Freeman 3, Kemmerer 1. Time--Six 7 1-2 minute chukkers. Referee--Captain Wesley J. White...