Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich man in the U. S. is better equipped to bark up the tax tree than Publisher Hearst. Within 24 hours he had released a statement amplifying his tax grievances to the Associated Press, in which Mr. Hearst owns 19 memberships. "New York," he explained, "is my legal and voting residence, and has been for over 36 years. I simply cannot afford to be a resident of California as well as New York. . . . Perhaps I am honored by special attention in the taxation program of the Federal Government on account of my political attitude, but I do not think...
...started with loud charges by Tree-Surgeon-Governor Davey that 13 members of the squad had State jobs (TIME, Oct. 21). Pleased by the uproar, officials at Ohio State admitted the fact, while Ohio State publicists ballyhooed the team's new name, ''Scarlet Scourge," announced that requests for Ohio State's football schedule had been received from London, Paris, Alaska, Bombay and Addis Ababa. In its second game, against Drake, Ohio State made a season's record for the number of players used (47) as well as the number of points scored...
...mile perimeter the Pacific lathered its boiling white waves. Offshore the President could see porpoise sporting glossily. Shark fins cut through the tropical waters like grey scimitars. And a flight of boatswain birds chattered about his head as he laid aside his pith helmet, sat down under a palm tree to share Boston baked beans and brown bread with a parcel of real treasure hunters, to talk of plunder, cities sieged and pirate gold...
...authority a Naval School which became the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Next day Assistant Secretary Roosevelt motored over to Annapolis to help celebrate its goth anniversary of that event. From far & wide gathered thousands of old Navy men who with their families strolled the quiet, trim, tree-lined yard in a sunny haze of good fellowship and sentiment. The Founder's grandson, Wilder Dwight Bancroft, famed Cornell chemist, made a speech. From a fleet of submarine chasers and launches a "White"' force of midshipmen swept up the Severn to rout "Blue" defenders in a re-enactment...
With the football season in full swing (see p. 53), Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey last week managed to catapult himself into the headlines by contributing a few notes on how footballers are financially coddled at Ohio State University. The Tree-Surgeon Governor was not concerned with the purification of Amateur Sport. His prime purpose was to embarrass politically the University, of which he is no alumnus...