Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conscript Labor. So politically powerful is the A. F. of L. that it compelled Congress to exclude specifically from the W. P. C.'s considerations the question of conscripting labor. Nevertheless this question continued to bob up at the hearings despite the efforts of Chairman Hurley to suppress it by citing the constitutional prohibition against involuntary servitude. What some witnesses could not see was the difference between "military slavery" in the trenches and "industrial slavery" at home. Nevertheless the weight of authoritative testimony was against drafting labor. General MacArthur, speaking for the War Department, opined: "The enforced employment...
...place of James Gamble Rogers Jr., the architect's son and varsity captain who had occupied it for two years. The Cornell boat, almost unchanged from the one which won the Poughkeepsie Regatta against the best crews in the land last year, was the favorite. In it were Bob Wilson, last year's stroke; Peter McManus, the baldheaded, 30-year old No. 5 who watched 14 Poughkeepsie regattas from his father's farm on the Hudson and, ten years after he got out of high school, made up his mind to go to college and become...
...final score, when the tumult dies way and the last hero has been lifted into the waiting van, will be 23 to 2. The Sacred lbis, somewhat missing in spots since a certain memorable occasion when it was prepared for the fire, will ruffle its remains with pride at Bob Lampoon, Esquire, steward, oarsman, jester, author, and pitcher, ascends the mound for the twenty-ninth time in defence of his heavily whiskered and otherwise disfigured brethren...
...Harvard CRIMSON extends its fullest apologies to Bob Lampoon for confusing "Steward" with "Stewart...
...that time Bob was twelve-gangling, stoopshouldered and over six feet tall. His father had retired from business, entrusted the newspaper management to the late James G., eldest son. From the age of 17 Bob Scripps was either working on a Scripps paper, traveling and studying, or learning directly from his father. When Old Man Scripps died in 1926, Bob was not only qualified to carry on but had fulfilled his father's prediction: he was most like him. He has lived up to the admonition embodied in a letter by Old Man Scripps when the latter embarked...