Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having finally been dragged off the New Jersey beach where she grounded in flames seven months ago, was sold for scrap to Union Shipbuilding Co. of Baltimore. Price: $33,605. Abandoned by her owners and underwriters, condemned by the Navy as unfit for further use, the $5,000,000 Ward liner had been taken over by the Army as a menace to navigation, sold to the highest bidder...
...Share-the-Wealth movement is divided into two parts. Part I is in Louisiana where Share-the-Wealth meetings are part of the regular curriculum of Boss Long's ward heelers. There are clubs, organized by his workers, in nearly every precinct or voting district. All jobholders and would-be jobholders are assembled in a shabby little house. They have nothing to lose and may have much to gain by joining. Orders are to elect as many officers as possible, so each club always has a president, several vice presidents, a secretary and many committee chairmen. Then some young...
...Even more serious are the arrogant demands that the Polish Corridor be demolished, that part of Czeckoslovakia be returned, and that the Reich have an air force equal to the French. It is not to be expected that Hitler's seemingly altruistic notion of demanding a huge army to ward off the "red Monace" could deceive any of the negotiaters, but it certainly serves to bank the fires of hostility in Russia. Further, and perhaps most important, he reiterates a demand for a much larger navy--one which would give Germany parity with Italy, and dominance in the Baltic. This...
Established is 1817, the Boylston Prize is one of the oldest offered by the University. It was founded by Ward Nicholas Boylston, who established the Boylston Professorship in Rhetoric and Oratory, and consists of one award of $50 and two of $35 each. The Lee Wade Prize was founded in 1915 by Dr. Francis Henry Wade in memory of his son, Lee Wade, II '14, and consists of one award...
...rest of the $3,028,723 which the Board funneled out in the fiscal year 1933-34, the biggest part went, as usual, to the South. Like the Rosenwald Fund, the General Education Board long ago made Southern education its special ward. In 32 years it has granted $57,418,075 for thi education of Southern whites, $32,331,203 for the education of Southern Negroes. But, like the Rosenwald Fund which year ago closed its program of building Negro schoolhouses (TIME, Dec. 11, 1933), the General Education Board is withdrawing from some of its early work in Southern schools...