Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the hilly shoulders of Charleston, W. Va. was draped a grey shawl of early morning mist. From his Chesapeake & Ohio special President Hoover crossed to a stadium near the station. There a sleepy-eyed crowd, many school children, heard him tell how Charleston's chemical industry had waxed fat and strong behind the protecting bulwark of the Republican tariff. A lusty cheer rolled out when the President recalled that he, too, had once worked with pick & shovel in a mine...
During the boom times, Butler University (enrollment: 1,414) at Indianapolis, Ind. did its athletes proud. It built a big stadium and an elaborate Butler Field House. Ruefully last week Butler's President Walter Scott Athearn took stock. University assets are some $6,000,000. Last year's deficit came to $7,000. Describing the athletic outlay as ''millstones about the neck of the school which bid fair to bankrupt and close [it] within five years." President Athearn declared that the day of intercollegiate athletic spectacles is gone, never to return. "Gate receipts,'' mourned...
Collections of money for the relief of Cambridge unemployed will be made in the Stadium at the Army game next Saturday, and at no other game this year, it was announced last night by the Student Council. The decision to ask the spectators for contributions at only one game was made by the Council at the suggestion of the Dean's Office and the H.A.A., who felt that almost an much would be contributed at one big game as at two or more, in view of the fact that about the same group of people attend each game...
With these flaws revealed in the first defeat of the season, Casey's men may be expected to take something of a brace before the cadets invade the Stadium next week. Army held William and Mary scoreless Saturday, 33-0, and has taken games from Yale, Furman, and Carleton, but has also incurred one defeat at the hands of Pitt...
While Harvard rooters were busy defending the goal posts inside the Stadium last Saturday after the game, spectators coming out Gate 33, on the Soldiers Field side witnessed another battle just outside the Stadium. This time the object of the attack was Edward G. Robinson, movie actor, and star of "Five Star Final", "The Hatchet Man", and "Tiger Shark". Mr. Robinson, standing by his car, went unnoticed until an observant boy ran up to him with a pencil and a ticket stub and asked him for his autograph. In an instant a crowd, waving pencils and papers engulfed...