Word: draining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What is now being done is related to you in detail by Gen. Hines, of the Veterans' bureau, a public official of demonstrated merit, so that I shall not dwell upon it. During the past year, under the distinguished and efficient leadership of Commander Drain, the Legion itself has undertaken to provide an endowment fund of $5,000,000 to minister to the charitable requirements of their comrades...
McQuigg. New York, Illinois and Ohio contended for the favor of choosing the next National Commander of the Legion to succeed James A. Drain. But there was no great spirit in the campaigning, for the Mitchell issue overtopped all others. On the last day of the Convention the struggle was decided in a single ballot. John R. McQuigg of East Cleveland, Ohio, 59, whitehaired, banker and lawyer, former engineer in the A. E. F. (with rank of Brigadier General) was elected. His vote was more than twice that of his competitors. His attitude on the Mitchell question may be gathered...
...James A. Drain, wife of the Commander of the American Legion, not to mention a carload of correspondents, and the usual secret service guard...
...from a wheel chair at the Bethany Memorial Reformed Church, distributed glasses of chilled water to his congregation, announced that this practice would be continued throughout the summer Sabbaths, during the hymns. Growing plants in pots will be placed at the end of each pew, that those who cannot drain their tumblers may have a place to deposit the residue. "There'll be no dry sermons here !" cried the Rev. Mr. Churchman...
President Humphreys of Stevens says that the rigid schedule of training, the consequent drain upon a student's time for study, and the injuries caused by "open play", justify the abolishment of the sport at that instituion. It is true that football has reached the point where the training of an athlete overtops every other consideration, studies not excluded; and the difference between amateurism and professionalism becomes largely a technicality. An amateur in football is certainly not an amateur in the general meaning of the word. But complaint on the score of injuries has less justification. Football, to be sure...