Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Harrison George, who spent 1918-23 in Leavenworth Prison for too violent pacifism, launched the San Francisco daily People's World on $33.000 raised by California Communists. After Chicago's Midwest Daily Record gets under way February 12, People's World will be western link in a cross-country chain of Communist papers anchored to New York's Daily Worker. Almost bare of advertising, first week's issues of People's World gave 20,000 readers a generous three cents' worth of bellicose headlines about "SHIPOWNERS PLOT LOCKOUT" and "Portrait...
...made a triumphal tour of the U. S., buoyed up by his best-selling Travel Diary of a Philosopher, fees reaching as high as $1,000 a lecture, and praise such as Glenn Frank's: "Keyserling may turn out to be a John the Baptist of a new Western civilization." On that trip hostesses received printed instructions on how to entertain the worldly prophet: 1) rooms should be cool; 2) a supper should be served after each lecture; 3) champagne should be provided; 4) oysters should be served, but no vegetables except mashed potatoes; 5) pretty young women should...
...last week on 1938's first day when 14 teams met in well-ballyhooed post-season games. Six were Bowl games, a unique U. S. institution founded for the purpose of publicizing southern winter resorts. The seventh was a game for charity, between picked players from Eastern and Western colleges.* played at San Francisco for the 13th year for the benefit of the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children...
...Pacific Coast and Far Western players are chosen to represent the West; Midwestern and Eastern players to represent the East. This year the West team was selected and coached by Lawrence (''Biff") Jones of Nebraska and Orin Hollingbcry of Washington State: the East by Andy Kerr of Colgate and Bernie Bierman of Minnesota...
Coach Prager himself accompanied the other six-man team (the Brothers Chivers and Bradley, Dick Durrance and John Litchrield) to Sun Valley, Idaho to meet the University of Washington in a dual meet. Washington, coached by Otto Lang, pet pupil of famed Skimeister Hannes Schneider, is to western skiing what Dartmouth is to eastern skiing. When Dick Durrance. generally recognized as the best skier in the U. S., sprained his ankle making a practice run last week. Coach Prager was apprehensive. But his other five skiers went on to make a clean sweep of the meet. Dartmouth took the first...