Word: shafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...events throughout the country to show the styles, manners, opinions, interests of the American people. But after Mr. Mason gets his reader into the actual conflict with the Spaniard, he entirely forgets to write of the folks back home and embarks on an inconsequential play-by-play account of Shafter's insular campaign and Dewey's tugboat race to Manila...
...Floyd Shafter Stahl, baseball coach at Ohio State for the past eight years, will succeed Fred F. Mitchell, who resigned early this summer, as head baseball coach here, it was announced by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. He will come to Cambridge early this fall and will be a year-round coach...
...first time in the memory of West Coast produce dealers, spring potatoes are moving as far east as Manhattan. Farmers of California's famed Shafter area, which is producing virtually all new Western potatoes at the moment, will gross some $8,000,000 from 9,000 acres- more than the entire California crop from 45,000 acres brought last year...
Last week cotton took wheat's place in the press headlines of the land and in the worried mind of the Federal Farm Board. Good growing weather began bringing in the 1931 crop ahead of schedule. On the Shafter, Calif, farm in which President Hoover has a financial stake, the first bale of long staple was produced three weeks earlier than last year. Ginning the South Carolina crop started at Allendale seven days ahead of time. In Washington, Department of Agriculture officials hotly defended as "reasonably accurate" their 15,584,000 bale crop estimate.* Prices sank to the lowest...
...American War only William Randolph Hearst, who headlined the country into war, and the Lindbergh of 1898, Richmond Pearson Hobson who sank the Merrimac in the mouth of Santiago harbor, are alive (Hero Hobson is now a Prohibition and antinarcotic lecturer- TIME, March 2). All the others- Roosevelt, Dewey, Shafter, Leonard Wood, Sampson. Schley, even Col. William Jennings Bryan of the Nebraska Volunteers -have died. Cuban revolutionists live longer. President Machado, General Menocal and Colonel Mendieta are all veterans of Cuba's War of Independence. Even Cosme de la Torriente, Cuba's grave member of the Permanent Court...