Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Story. Fully aware of the rumors that had escaped the ears of Franklin Roosevelt, the Post Gazette sent its eccentric, middleaged, ace political factfinder, Ray Sprigle, to Alabama to investigate the story as soon as Hugo Black was nominated. For Reporter Sprigle-who affects Western sombreros, carries a silver-ringed cane and likes nothing better than a job of conscientious muckraking-the assignment was a treat. His first dispatches were routine stories which contained principally the information that the Klan had supported Hugo Black in the 1926 election. Original plan was to run the articles before Justice Black could...
...citizens is in college or university this fall. Never before in any nation on earth have so many (1,250,000) students and pseudo-students tried to climb the peaks of education. Big, bustling University of Minnesota in Minneapolis is sharing in the boom. Last week the small, silver-haired dean of its College of Science, Literature & the Arts, John Black Johnston, 68, prepared to retire, and as he did so lugubriously doomed one in every two of its students to drown in the sea of education...
...afternoon: "When do you think I'll be able to see my advisor?" "You'll be lucky if you get him before midyears; I never did." "What are November hours?" Only two men all day paid their Student Council contributions in silver; all the rest used paper. West of Chicago all you see are coins; cast of Chicago it's all paper...
...swell, came in in 22 min. 2 sec. As coxswain, the Conte di Savoia's First Officer Pietro Passano joyously received the kisses of his crew, then for good measure kissed the cup he got from the hands of Chairman Kennedy. The eight oarsmen each got an individual silver...
This year lifeboat racing, with the Hague Trophy about to be retired, got a new silver cup from another enthusiast, Joseph W. Powell of United Shipyards. Inc. Run off just before the Hague event, not in lifeboats but in uniform Monomoy surf boats borrowed from the U. S. Coast Guard, the first Powell Cup race attracted a field of seven crews, fastest of which proved to be that of the United Fruit Co.'s freighter San José, which stroked the course...