Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...residents of Tsingtao were sternly advised by U. S. Consul Samuel Sokobin that they must not join German, British and Russian residents who were busy recruiting a group of some 250 white vigilantes armed with clubs to protect each other's lives and property as best they could. While the Sokobin "good neighbor policy" was pursued by U. S. citizens, the white club-wielders dashed about Tsingtao in groups of five, cracking the crown of every yellow native they suspected of looting. Tsingtao by this time looked from a distance like one great smoking pyre of chaos, but after...
...book, "History of Harvard College," Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History, was awarded the Jean Jules Jusserand medal at the fifty-second meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia last week...
University of Colorado's bespectacled 20-year-old Byron Raymond ("Whizzer") White, All-America back and 1937's high college football scorer (122 points) who this week plays in the Cotton Bowl game against Rice Institute, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where his brother Samuel is currently a Rhodes Scholar...
...York World sports reporter, in his syndicated column, picking his own 1937 All-America Stuffed-Shirt Eleven. Eliminating a left wing entirely, Leftist Broun put both Sinclair Lewis and Boake Carter at right guard, Dale ("How to Win Friends") Carnegie at quarterback, New York's bumbling Senator Royal Samuel Copeland at fullback. "Because he has a tendency to block the attack of his own side," Mr. Broun, against the advice of friends, made A.F. of L.'s President William Green centre instead of a blocking back. At "extreme" right end he placed Colgate's spoon-collecting President...
Last week, nearly a year after Bishop Edmund F. Gibbons banned church-sponsored "bingo" games in his Albany, N. Y. diocese (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936), a further reaction against such games of chance was noticeable in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Samuel Alphonsus Stritch of Milwaukee had put a ban upon all games in which money or the equivalent could be won. Bishop Henry Althoff of Belleville, Ill. not only forbade church gambling but voiced the hope that his people would support their churches by direct contribution rather than parish parties and festivals. Archbishop John Joseph Glennon of St. Louis condemned...