Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under President Simpson's vigorous leadership the National Farmers' Union last week went on record for: 1) remonetization of silver at 16-to-1; 2) a domestic moratorium on all debts and taxes; 3) full payment of the War Debts to the U. S.; 4) Federal refinancing of the $9,000,000,000 worth of farm mortgages outstanding; 5) licensing all dealers in agricultural products; 6) higher income taxes; 7) a $500,000 limit on all inheritances; 8) the domestic allotment plan of price upping;* 9) consideration of producers' strikes. A red-hot Roosevelt man, Unionist Simpson...
...Frank Borzage?who quit school at 13 and worked in a silver mine to get money to go on the stage?it was his second Academy award. His first was in 1928, for Seventh Heaven. It was the second time also for Frances Marion who, one of the most highly paid and consistently successful scenarists in Hollywood, was a star reporter in San Francisco before she started writing for the cinema at $15 a week, working up to an Academy prize in 1930 for The Big House. Lee Garmes, noted for his "low lighting," was a cameraman's assistant...
...bells); A Lowell of Lowells, brother of the late Astronomer Percival and the late terrifying, cigar-smoking poetess Amy who used to proclaim: "I am the only member of the Lowell family that's worth a damn." Harvardmen know that Dr. Lowell was born in Boston, won a silver cup in 1875 for winning a mile race in 5 min. 14 sec.* was graduated from Harvard in 1877; married in 1879 to another Lowell (Anna Parker) who died without issue two years ago. Studying and practicing law, later teaching government kept him busy until, in 1909, he succeeded Harvard...
Three tournaments in indoor sports for Freshmen have been scheduled for the winter season in the Union. Pingpong, pool, and billiard matches will be played, with a silver trophy as the prize for the champion in each division. Entries for the contests close on December...
Named for Dr. K.T. Compton, honorary alumnus of Harvard, former head of the Physics department at Princeton and now president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a trophy cup of old English gilt silver is being given by the student body of Technology for perpetual competition between Harvard, Princeton, and M.I.T. in a crew race to be held each spring...