Word: slates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start last week on the Thames in New London, but little Gillespie, the Yale coxswain, was shouting less often into the face of Woodruff Tappen, the big stroke. Yale cut its beat to 32, began to gain as soon as Harvard dropped from 40. It was a slate-grey afternoon; on the varnished river the fleet of yachts strung with pennants, crowded with people in summer clothes, stood in silence as the boats swept past the half-mile flags. Yale had almost a one-length lead here and was rowing more easily than Harvard. Now and then the Harvard shell...
...returned to Stamford to do legal work for Yale & Towne, famed locksmiths. Today he is Yale & Towne's board chairman. In 1879 he married Frances Hoyt who bore him two daughters, Louise and Katharine. In 1904 he dropped his corporation law practise long enough to help his Slate rewrite its constitution. As a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1916 he helped nominate Charles Evans Hughes for the Presidency. In 1917 at a special election, as the friend of the late John T. King, he was sent to Congress to succeed the late Ebenezer Hill, has been continuously...
...state banks. In 1841, alter the banks had failed, Mississippi defaulted on her payments, and has been in default ever since. The Supreme Court of Mississippi in 1842 declared the bonds to be binding obligations ol the State, but still the default continued. Indeed, in 1875 the Slate incorporated in its constitution a provision forbidding the payment of any ot the defaulted bonds...
...early, still, to begin thinking about the Yale tennis match, but there's quite a lot to consider, nevertheless. The Harvard tennis team, in returning from another undefeated tour of the South, has run, its string of consecutive victories to 17. Last year it had a clean slate . . . in fact, the only match lost by a Harvard tennis team at all was that in which the Freshmen outplayed the Seconds! The year before, the University team lost only to Pennsylvania. In Norfolk, this Spring, the team romped over William and Mary, 9 to 0; the Norfolk Country Club...
Captain Warner brought his season to a close with a clean slate when he twice defeated Richardson of Brown by falls...