Word: weavers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Booming, bumbling Tom Shaw, one-time weaver, now War Minister, made the Parliamentary bloomer of the week. Trespassing on the fiscal preserves of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden without Cabinet authority, and possibly without knowing what he was doing. Right Honorable Tom blandly remarked that holders of British War Bonds are receiving too high a rate of interest: "They are getting $500,000,000 a year to which they have not the slightest moral right! . . . That is a fact that has got to be faced before this country can be put on its feet again...
...first day the celebrating Nebraskans paraded. Governor Arthur J. Weaver led off. Behind him came a history: Francisco Vasquez Coronado. who in 1541, looking for El Dorado, discovered Nebraska; Indians, led by Crow Chief Max Big Man; prairie schooners; oxcarts; stage coaches; a Mormon handcart which had been trundled across Nebraska by foot-sore Mormons So years before. In a stage coach rode the original "Deadwood Dick" Clark, now 83, proudly wearing his many-notched horse pistol, and the original "Poker Alice" Tubbs, now 76. smoking her big black cigar. Eleven appropriately furnished floats represented "The Parade of Nations...
...stock and horse show blue ribbons went to Best Steer Lothian Count IV, to Best Mare Margot. Samuel McKelvie Sr.. father of the Federal Farm Board's Samuel Roy McKelvie, won prizes on his Poland China hogs. Flyers from four States competed in an air derby. Governor Weaver, presented with a Diamond Jubilee plaque, said: "Nebraska has no mines of gold or silver or precious stones, but ... a soil that will last forever . . . salubrious climate . . . wonderful water...
...summary: EXETER HARVARD 1933 Seton, g. g., Fitch Ringsley, Gomez, r.f.b. l.f.b., Waters Condict, Bernuth, l.f.b. r.f.b., Vandermark Brooks, r.h.b. l.h.b., Martin Robinson, c.h.b. c.h.b., Gallaway, Grossman Thompson, l.h.b. r.h.b., Denison Gilbert, r.o.f. l.o.f., Williams, Ossorio Weaver, Harrison, r.i.f. k.l.f., Eaton Hixon, c.f. c.f., Lindsey, Heard King, Hausserman, l.i.f. r.i.f., Schumacher Sugimura, l.o.f. r.o.f., Hasbrouck...
Score--Exeter 2, Harvard 1933 0. Goals--Robinson, Weaver. Time--Four 20-minute periods. Referee--Knight...