Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life prior to this year,--in fact three seats behind him, at number 5 is the very man, Mac Bancroft, who rowed in a Browne and Nichols crew which defeated the Cassedy-stroked Nobles eight in 1929. . .Bob Saltonstall and Ben Bacon, the two other members of the veteran stern four have proved themselves for three years able to take some of the weight off Cassedy's shoulders when the stroke is raised, which is the most important duty of numbers 7 and 6. . ."Woof" Hallowell, brother of last year's Varsity captain, and a member of this same stern...
Eyes on 1932. "General" Brown, Toledo boss, lawyer, yachtsman, gardener & cook, is a veteran Hooverizer. In 1927 the then Secretary of Commerce brought him to Washington as an Assistant Secretary in his department. As such, Mr. Brown built up the machine, particularly in Ohio, which won the 1928 nomination with the slogan "Who But Hoover?" His appointment as Postmaster General the following year was altogether political with both eyes on 1932. Last week in Washington "General" Brown was in the thick of the only real controversy confronting the convention-a platform plank on Prohibition...
...hearing in the stuffy little Commons Pleas Courtroom at Bridgeton, N. J. went hundreds of curious folk, mostly parents. Citizen Smart, a Canadian Army veteran, put on his uniform and four medals. Mrs. Smart testified she had been graduated from a New York grammar school, had had one year in high school. Her children, she said, were learning reading, writing, arithmetic, "moral ethics, character building and allied subjects." Then small Arthur Smart read a fairy tale. Elizabeth Smart did sums...
Seething with guerrilla warfare, Manchuria became Banditland in earnest last week. Civilian passenger and freight traffic was suspended on the Chinese Eastern, vital link in the railways that connect China with Europe. Among refugees pouring into Harbin, chief city on the Chinese Eastern, was Herr Kapitan Roland Strunk, grizzled veteran of the Imperial German Army...
...York is being delighted with a comedy given at the public's expense which eclipses anything that the professional stage has to offer. At the present the leading comedy role is filled by that inimitable veteran of the boards, James Walker, who is playing the injured and innocent mayor with a heart of gold ever ready at his tongue's tip. Supporting him is his brother in the traditional role of the doctor whose sole remedy is to bleed his patients whether they suffer from indigestion or from starvation. In addition to the Mayor and his brother there...