Word: sams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cigar-making is not a trade of such outstanding importance that it should command the labor of a nation; yet it helped Sam Gompers to his high place. The cigar-makers worked better when their minds were busy. So they arranged for one of their number to read to them while they worked, making their own cigars and an equal share for the reader. Sam Gompers became a favorite reader. Thereby he acquired a precise enunciation, a mellifluous voice and an effective oral interpretation of words. It also brought him a wide contact with English literature, to which he added...
...will be in a position to offer advice that may be a great help to the coaches in developing the crews, since each has such a good opportunity to study each of the members of his crew at close range. It was with this object in view that Coach Sam Shaw of the Freshman crews spent much time with the first year cox candidates. Later in the afternoon Coach Shaw explained to the experienced Freshmen, who reported today for the first time, the new stroke that will be used exclusively this year. Today the experienced yearlings will...
According to this arrangement Sam Shaw, captain of last year's eight and right hand man to the Washington coach, will have general charge in directing the work of all Freshman crews, 150-pound included. He is to be assisted' in this capacity by William Halnes, head of the lightweight crews in 1922-23, and H. H. Halnes, coach of last year's Freshman...
...during the War. On account of this direct interest, the Foundation has been the target of much litigation from the companies whose property was confiscated, but it has not been dissolved, and has devoted much of its activity to the encouragement of American chemistry and the protection of Uncle Sam's infant chemical industry from foreign competition...
With Coach Stevens come two more Westerners, Fred Newell and Sam Shaw, who will act as assistant coaches. Stevens will personally supervise the work of the University oarsman, while Shaw will have charge of the Freshmen and Newell of the class crews...