Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invaders took their revenge by binding and gagging J. M. Boyd '35, CRIMSON editor, who was at the time working in the building. In spite of the gallant attempt at rescue made by R. P. Buch '34, and the effective defense afforded by the shovel of Adolph, veteran janitor, who was subsequently imprisoned in the boiler room, the visitors succeeded in driving Buch out of the building and into the inner sanctuary of the Catholic church. They immediately removed Boyd from the premises, and drove away to Wellesley Hills...
Hope is pinned on the veteran stars of this year, P. W. A. Hines '34, and Bradford Simmons '34. The latter is as yet undefeated in the heavyweight class...
...ambitious schedule since the return of the sport to Cambridge, the Harvard Varsity boxing team will tackle eight of the strongest college boxing teams in the East next year. Syracuse, eastern intercollegiate champion, holder of the Southern conference crown, is a newcomer on Coach LaMar's schedule. Harvard's veteran aggregation will journey to Virginia in January to meet the champions of the South...
...chief law officer instead of sending him to the Philippines as Governor General. For the Manila post the President picked Frank Murphy, 40, the redheaded, hard-bitten bachelor Mayor of Detroit. He was an early and ardent pre-convention Roosevelt supporter. An A. E. F. veteran, a lawyer who did post-graduate work at Lincoln's Inn, London, Mayor Murphy has stoutly carried out a liberal relief program in Detroit. So generous was the Mayor with public funds that he will turn his office over to Frank Couzens, president of the Common Council and 31-year...
...upon U. S. manufacturers and producers not only the five-day week but also the far more radical six-hour day. As an emergency measure to combat unemployment the proposed law would be effective for only two years. Its author was smart little Hugo Black of Alabama, lawyer, War veteran, economic idealist. Senator Black & friends predicted his bill would supply 6,000,000 men with work, on the theory that the employer who wants to keep his production at current levels must hire 25% more workers to obey the law. President Green of the A. F. of L. jubilated...