Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swap opinions and amateur musical criticism, behave in general more like swing fans at a jam jag than ordinary concertgoers. On some nights the floor is so packed, the air so heavy with smoke and heat that faintings and hurried exits are common. Since the series began in 1895, weed-whiskered old Sir Henry Joseph Wood has conducted every concert. When he and Concert Agent Robert Newman at first insisted on including new and unfamiliar compositions in their programs, critics praised them but insisted that that kind of thing would not go down with the untutored public. Wood ignored their...
...present Mr. Johnson (himself a Lieutenant Colonel of Reserves) is concerned with the army's overgrown list of colonels and generals. The field artillery, for example, has 95 colonels, needs no more than 50. Some system of selective promotion to replace the present seniority method (and incidentally to weed out 7,200 World War holdovers) soon will be presented to Congress, will please even the West Pointers who dislike Louis Johnson...
...setting up WPA in his home State. Since 1935 he has administered $95,000,000 worth of Minnesota WPA projects in a manner not always acceptable to Elmer A. Benson. Their bitterest clash took place last winter, when Administrator Christgau refused to appropriate $700,000 for a weed eradication project sponsored by the Governor. Last fortnight, WPA's high command issued an order summarily removing Mr. Christgau, appointing Roy C. Jacobson, WPA field representative, as Minnesota's acting WPAdministrator...
...Roger Shaefer is not far behind Donahue in the hurdles. Westmore Willcox, 3rd, whose father holds the meet record in that event, will run the quarter. David Ives in the broad jump and pole vault, Rosenberger in the latter event if his ankle heals, Russell and Weed in the high jump. Whit Dodge in the half, and Baker in the mile all may garner vital seconds and thirds...
...Weed-whiskered old Poultney Bigelow...