Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blue Valley Farmer, with a claimed circulation of 80.000 and no free list, is owned by Oklahoma's Governor William Henry Murray, his wife Alice, his cousin Cicero. In answer to the widespread charge that Murraymen capitalize on it; owners' official position to solicit advertising and subscriptions, Governor Murray has announced that he would dismiss any employe so doing. Many a Blue Valley Farmer advertiser reports satisfaction with results...
Prohibition. Governor Roosevelt is a Wet who has declared for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. Yet, with his eye on the White House, he would like to soft-pedal Prohibition as an issue and retreat into the mists of referenda. Widespread is the belief that, lacking profound Wet convictions, he is deliberately weaseling to woo Dry Democratic support from the South at the convention and in the election. He blocked attempts last year for a Wet declaration by the Democratic National Committee. The Roosevelt-Smith split grew out of opposing viewpoints on Prohibition?one for an honestly militant stand...
...school to obtain any financial support whatever indicates that for the present at least there is no strong desire for dramatic instruction at Harvard. No doubt the depression increased the school's difficulty in acquiring funds. Nevertheless a slight response might have been expected if there had been any widespread and serious desire for a drama school at Harvard...
Perhaps the most significant recent development in American colleges is the widespread attempt to adopt the tutorial system. Pioneering work in various Eastern colleges has stimulated the interest of other schools. Recently, the attempt has been made to introduce the tutor into the fraternity system. Already applied at Minnesota, and Oklahoma, this plan has now been taken up by Lafayette College, with the active support of the faculty...
...week Aldred & Co. were able to announce the largest single power contract in U. S. history when Safe Harbor got an order from Pennsylvania to supply current for its lines from the east bank of the Susquehanna into the capital. Besides this, Safe Harbor transmission lines connect with the widespread delivery system of the Holtwood dam, reaching into Baltimore, Lancaster, York, Coatesville...