Word: saws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt Joe Kennedy saw last week was not the fractious, irritated, harried man who sat at the same cluttered desk last summer. A remarkable change has come over the President: once again he is relaxed, confident, charming. Gone is his captious attitude to the U. S. press. Old Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington columnists, noted the change a month ago, hopefully analyzed the President's bubbly jocularity as a signal he has decided not to run again...
Lurid or political, at week's end the relief situation in Ohio was still critical. Hundreds of tons of foodstuffs from Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. were poured into the State. President Roosevelt approved the expenditure of $1,248,991 for three new WPA projects. Cleveland saw some new money for relief in sight as its City Council approved the sale of $1,200,000 worth of bonds against delinquent taxes. But these were only stopgaps...
When he graduated he was awarded the Sheldon Prize Fellowship-$1,500 for a year's travel outside the U. S. He had looked forward to China: he had studied Chinese at Harvard, and he wanted to see what war is like. What he saw made him chuck traveling and go straight to work for the Chinese Government as a translator and writer in the Ministry of Information. Recently he realized the importance of Shansi Province in North China warfare, became impatient with meagre reports which were drifting out, and so decided to go and see for himself...
Graduate members of the various musical clubs at Harvard will hear a program featuring a musical saw, a swing pianists, and a recitation of "Casey at the Bat" tonight, as the Harvard Instrumental Clubs begin their winter concerts with a performance at the Varsity Club...
...Chuck Diven, but they still have Ross Hahn and Bruce Pearce as forwards; Harian Gustafson, football captain, at center, and Captain Gerry Seeders and Bernie Schrieber at the guards. In fact that is the way Pennsylvania will line up, at least for its early games. All of these men saw plenty of action a year ago. All but Hahn are letter men. He was ineligible for the second half of the 1939 campaign...