Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past, before the development of modern newspaper facilities, conscientious voters often remained in ignorance of the true significance of the ballot they had cast for many hours. The Harvard CRIMSON attempts to avoid recurrence of these mid-Victorian conditions...
...find out what the masses are thinking. Publisher McCormick is aloof and domineering, rules his paper from a lofty office in the Gothic Tribune Tower, possesses such an aversion to human contact that he has himself driven to work from his Wheaton estate in a coupe, in order to avoid having to offer a neighbor a lift. Yearly he entertains his employes in the Tribune Tower lobby. Remarked Cousin Joe Patterson at one of these affairs: "Bert certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march by." Under the Tribune masthead each day has appeared "The Tribune platform...
...Same week Franklin Roosevelt made it once. On one day Tribune readers could find nowhere in their paper news of the President of the U. S. Following day appeared a short piece on page 13, reporting that the President had canceled his regular White House press conference, "presumably to avoid embarrassing questions about recent campaign developments...
...deal. Offered for sale by underwriters, headed by Boston's Jackson & Curtis, was $10,000,000 worth of bonds and stocks in United Stockyards Corp., a new corporate entity which last September purchased Swift's large interests in one Canadian, seven U. S. stockyards. In 1920, to avoid Government prosecution under anti-trust laws, Swift and the other big packers signed "consent decrees" pledging themselves to get rid of stockyard holdings. Wilson and Cudahy divorced themselves from their relatively small stockyard interests within a few years, Armour took until 1928. Swift, by far the largest owner of stockyards...
Coach Crisler falls to share the sanguine confidence of his players. His scouts have called Harvard 50 per cent stronger on the offensive and equal on the defensive to last year's Crimson eleven; he is fighting desperately with his charges to avoid a let-down after the grueling contests with Penn and Navy. PRINCETON STATISTICS Pos. Age Wgt. IIt. Rawis, W. S. '37 r.e 21 185 6.2 Toll, C. H. Jr, '38 r.t. 20 222 6.5 Montgomery, T. W. '37 r.g. 23 183 6. Cullinan, S. E. '37 c. 21 180 5.11 Ritter...