Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon. Coach Whiteside has made an almost definite choice of the men who will row against Princeton and M.I.T. in the Compton Cup Races on May 9. Whiteside is facing the same problem that Joe Stubbs faced in hockey this winter. A champion crew has graduated leaving only one veteran and five members of the present boat are Sophomores. It is the problem of the coach to build for next year when the positions of the two men who are graduating this year will be adequately filled by some of the members of the present Jayvee boat and to trust...
Last week the Navy announced that about June 1 Commander Wiley would take command of the Macon. He is a veteran of five years' service on the sturdy old Los Angeles (now decommissioned). Before the House Naval Affairs Committee investigating the Akron's fate, he told how water rushing into one cabin window washed him out of another, how he swam clear of the ship. When the inquiry was over he was sent to sea as navigating officer on a cruiser. Commander Alger Herman Dresel, who has been the Macon's skipper since it first emerged from...
...path. In the rowboat were the Marquis de la Gandara and his mechanic. They were fished out safe and sound but officials refused to give the Count time to patch the hole in the Barracuda's bow. It made small difference in the result. His teammate Becchi, veteran automobile and motorboat racer, who wears plugs in his ears because years of driving high-powered motors have made them oversensitive, drove to his third consecutive victory in his cigar-shaped...
...balatoc there was in the bantay and what it was worth. One day last autumn an old man strode down the streets of Manila waving a bottle. Men buttonholed him on the sidewalks. "They all want to give me money," yipped Old Tom Leonard. Old Tom, Spanish-American War veteran, onetime Philippine policeman, had been digging in the Camarine mountains for 15 years. Waving his bottle, he made his speech: "Until the past few weeks, when I'd come to Manila to look up my partners, it was practically a question of begging enough money to meet my payrolls...
...Insurance of Lives & Granting Annuities) was found ed in Philadelphia there had been no bank in all the 13 colonies. Prime mover behind the new bank was a brilliant young bastard from the West Indies named Alexander Hamilton. Banks were new even in Europe but this 27-year-old veteran of the Revolution knew all the banking there was to know. It took a pocket full of depreciated paper money to buy a twist of to bacco or a cannikin of rum and people had long talked of a bank whose stock would be subscribed in land. But Hamilton...