Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Harvard are inevitably put on the block for comparison with those of the grim government industry, a comparison that involves not only team play, but also individual undergraduate attitude and sportsmanship. But with the traditional slum and gravy signs, the future generals will come again for the annual fiasco, and John Harvard will discard his Bible for a glance at the future defenders of the rights of the peaceful...
...shakeup, more important than appeared on the surface, within the Farm Board's agencies. Last December National Grain Corp. hired William G. Kellogg as general manager. Mr. Kellogg had been a Minneapolis cash grain dealer. His brother John had been involved in the Armour Grain Corp. fiasco which caused his suspension for two years from the Chicago Board of Trade. Early this year when wheat broke badly Grain Corp., with the Farm Board's sanction, organized Stabilization Corp. to go into the pit and trade on U. S. funds. William Kellogg was made its president. Who endorsed...
Directly as a result of popular discon tent and army disgust at the bloody Morocco fiasco, the then Captain General of Catalonia, Primo de Rivera, marched upon Madrid in 1923 with the "confidence" of his fellow military satraps and? it is generally believed?the connivance of the King. His Majesty thought in 1923 and continued to think last week that extra-Constitutional methods would best bulwark his Throne...
...boxing-situation in this country (and consequently everywhere) seems to be getting worse by the minute. The recently arranged Miami bout between Jack Sharkey and Phil Scott, the English horizontal hope, promises to be the biggest and best fiasco to date; which is saying quite a lot considering some of the misfortunes which have taken place in the cauliflower industry of late. About the only claim to fame which Scott can put forth comes from his recent so-called fight with Campolo, who has been variously called the worst, the saddest, and the most pitiful exponent of the leather-slinging...