Word: won
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though Mr. Gardiner never won his football "H", still he was an outstanding tackle on the Crimson team in his Sophomore year until he broke his arm in the Princeton game. In his Junior and Senior years he aided in coaching the Freshman eleven. Mr. Gardiner rowed on the 1914 University crew...
Interested in affairs military, he attended two Plattsburg training camps (1915-1916). When war came, he was commissioned a major of field artillery (311th), went to France in July, 1918, fought through the Argonne campaign, won the D. S. M. from the U. S., the Legion of Honor from France. He returned to his corporation law office in 1919, which he left on Aug. 8, 1922, when he was appointed to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator William Evans Crow...
...Armistice Day Major Hurley did some voluntary reconnaissance near Louppy under heavy enemy fire which won him a silver star citation...
...altogether popular in Tulsa where small minds cavil that it is his personality, not real ability, which has carried him so far. The Tulsa World once openly charged that Col. Hurley was trying to rise to political heights purely on his good looks. Fairer observers, however, recall how he won a famed murder trial for a Tulsa friend simply by the intonation of his "Yesses" and "Noes" on the witness stand...
...Anti-trust cases were summarily reviewed: The year began with 26 on the dockets, to which 20 were added; the U. S. won 11 out of 13 completed...