Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mothers Day was one of the first of the recent brilliant ideas concocted by ambitious salesmen. In its wake one completes the year with Fathers' Day. National blank bread week. International soap weeks, and even Universal eat-a-certain-kind-of-cracker month. There is now hardly a seven day stretch which does not yield its important hours to the grasping plans of retailers...
Rowing in the wake of the late afternoon river traffic, the two University 150-pound boats and the Sophomore class eight raced over the upstream mile course yesterday. Plans for putting the crews through their paces over the Henley distance were thwarted by a head wind which ruffled the basin and defied smooth blade-work...
...President William N. Reynolds of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), who was lately elected to succeed Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (resigned last year); President Bennette Eugene Geer of Southern Worsted Corp.; Dr. Robert Lee Flowers, secretary-treasurer of the University, and Dr. Watson Smith Rankin, onetime dean of Wake Forest College (N. C.) School of Medicine, director of the hospital and orphanage program. Alternating between Manhattan and North Carolina, the Board meets every month. Last month it handed out $886,000 to the institutions on its list...
...grey dawn. Upstairs in a farmhouse near Milan, Mo. lay a burly middle-aged man with a scarred lip, asleep. Near his pillow lay a loaded pistol. But he did not wake up when four stealthy-figures entered the bedroom and "covered" him with a submachine gun, did not have time to snatch his weapon before they had seized and beaten him into submission...
President Hoover left Washington for the Caribbean a very tired man. Even a broken coupling that split his special train during the night was not enough to wake him in his private car. At Old Point Comfort, Va., his party?Secretary of War Hurley, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur. Private Secretary Richey, naval and military aides, 25 news and camera men?was put aboard the U. S. S. Arizona, Capt. Charles Freeman commanding. The President was assigned the captain's two-room-&-bath suite while Secretaries Hurley and Wilbur bunked together in the admiral's quarters...