Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lineup may again be filled by Bill Smith, who is normally a 175-pounder. Coming up from his 165-pound class of last year, he now fills ably the large gap left by Brad Simmons, having knocked out all of his opponents except one this year. Pete Ward, co-captain with Smith, is back at college after an operation for appendicitis, but his participation in the Yale meet will be vocal...
...elements of a rip-snorting class-conflict were present in the little town of Marked Tree in January when a youngster of 24 named Ward H. Rodgers, on the executive committee of the Union, addressed an outdoor gathering of hungry, disgruntled and dispossessed tenant farmers. Ward Rodgers, a Socialistic Texan with theological degrees from Vanderbilt and Boston Universities, was already in bad odor with the landlord class because he had been calling Negroes "mister." And as an instructor in FERA's adult education service, he had been mixing Karl Marx with the ABC's. He was quoted...
...Grigoris' room. "I am God!" screamed Grigoris. "Look at me and you die!" Michael Gryzwacz looked with staring eyes and fell dead, of a complication of old diseases, topped off by a heart attack. Having killed once with a look, Frank Grigoris was dragged off to the psychopathic ward of Bellevue Hospital...
Died. Frank Melville Jr., 74, founder and board chairman of Melville Shoe Corp. whose chains of shoe stores (John Ward, Thom McAn) are among the world's largest; in Manhattan. Melville Shoe Corp. sold its Rival chain last January, still owns 585 stores...
...boost rural buying, Sears had slashed prices an average of 15%, with biggest reductions in dress goods, curtains, blankets, linens, piece goods. That brought Sears' price scale about on a level with Montgomery Ward which cut prices an average of 6% fortnight ago. Apparently the two biggest mail order houses in the land were convinced that retail prices would not rise for some time...