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...about the same 1936 class was President Arthur Sherman of Covered Wagon Co., biggest auto trailerman of the first Auto-Trailer Year...
With the announcement that the '39 and '40 football schedule will include the University of Pennsylvania comes the realization that Harvard has in all earnestness climbed onto the Ivy League band-wagon. Every college named in this newest eastern league will meet Harvard teams during the next four years, with the single exception of Columbia. Not only by lip service but by the best example of all -- actual playing agreements, does Harvard signify her intention to do all in her power to further amateur football and non-professionalism in the college field...
...Resettlement Administration, with its high costs (administrative overhead 13? on the dollar) and record of questionable success, faced difficulty in getting new appropriations from Congress. In parts of the South many a no-good farmer who has been "rehabilitated" now drives along the road with his new mule, new wagon, new harness grinning down at the "leading citizen" of the community sweating in his lower 40 to pay the interest on his mortgage, with an old mule, spliced harness and last year's ploughlines. All this Dr. Tugwell classifies as prejudice and dismisses, but Congressmen at home among their...
...much of this generosity was inspired by the Roosevelt landslide was impossible to determine. Certainly the rush to raise wages that developed in industry after Nov. 3 looked suspiciously like a hasty effort to climb aboard the band wagon of a President who is deeply indebted to Labor. Only big industry to get aboard ahead of time was Packing, which upped its scales 7% one week before Election. Steel hopped on as soon as returns were in. Wage boosts followed in the textile and automobile industries, in hundreds of miscellaneous manufacturing enterprises throughout the land. By last week United Press...
...traded in cattle and mules, traveled across Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, learned to ride like a Gaucho and usually lived like one. At 27 he married a Chilean, "Gabriella, the daughter of Don Francisco Jose de la Balmondiere," took her on a honeymoon, part of which was a trip by wagon and horseback from San Antonio, Tex. to Mexico City. In 1879 this journey took 50 days and the travelers were in constant danger of Indian attacks. Cunninghame Graham taught fencing in Mexico City, returned to the cattle business in South America, learned when his father died in 1884 that debts...