Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Academy of Music. This time the Roosevelt touch was sure. He flayed the "unholy alliance" of elements which had united against him. Quoting Philadelphia Lawyer Robert McCracken as saying that only the paupers supported the Roosevelt candidacy, he cried: "These paupers are only the millions . . . who have helped build this country...
...rich man's college, Minnesota, second biggest U. S. university (first: California), is a vigorous, booming educational service station like Ohio State (TIME, Jan. 22). Many of its 15,000-odd students are poor and doggedly hardworking. To build them a worthy social centre was an ambition of Minnesota's late great President Lotus Delta Coffman. Last fortnight Minnesota's students, faculty and alumni (aided by PWA) made his wish a fact, dedicated the $1,850,000 Coffman Memorial Union on the Mississippi's bluffs. Last week, Minnesota's boys and girls tramped over...
Hour exams and key injuries have made it difficult for Harvard to build up resistance this week for the powerful Pennsylvania Quakers. Joe Gardella has almost no chance of participating in the game, and Loren MacKiney will not be in top shape for 60 minutes of bruising football. A muscle injury is slowing him up considerably...
...struggled for standing room in the streets outside. Again his best bits were the comic passages: he ridiculed the Republican leadership for opposing many defense measures before World War II began, for saying "There will be no war"-and for claiming now that he had failed to build up national defense. He said, scorn sharpening his voice: "Today they complain that this Administration has starved our armed forces, that our Navy is anemic, our Army puny, our air force piteously weak. This is a remarkable somersault...
...John Ingle, head of Goodyear's Crude Rubber Division, who flew there from Akron as guest of Vargas' golf partner, Brazil's dynamic, smart, supersalesman, Valentim F. Boucas. Observers thought Goodyear would probably accept an invitation to establish an experimental station in Pará, might even build a plant. It looked as though Uncle Sam were already beginning to hedge against Pacific blockade...