Word: pendleton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 1936. Ellen Fitz Pendleton will have been a graduate of Wellesley for 50 years, Wellesley's president for 25. In June 1936, she informed her Board of Directors last week, she will also become president emeritus. Wellesley girls of today know "Pres-Penn" as a handsome white-haired lady who glides about town & campus in an ancient electric automobile. To alumnae she is the doughty money-getter who buried the ashes of the College Fire of 1914 beneath tons & tons of Collegiate-Gothic building stone...
...socialite, onetime University of Southern California footballer. His horse's name is Lightning. Dirt cheap compared to most pictures, Westerns cost from $4,000 to $30,000 each. Famed Hoot Gibson (horse: "Hooter") makes his pictures on his ranch near Hollywood wearing the championship belt he won at Pendleton Round...
...suggestion that tutorial work could be made to supplement the new voluntary lectures in government was offered yesterday by E. Pendleton Hering, instructor in Government, who has just completed the first three lectures of the new series...
...fiesta, though it has since become better known than Prescott's, started nine years later. Long before any of these, rodeos were part of fiestas in Mexico. There are now over 400 places in the U. S. which hold annual rodeos. Most famed are Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Pendleton Roundup, the Calgary Stampede, Fort Worth Rodeo, the Cowboys' Reunion at Las Vegas, N. Mex. Originally, rodeo events, like riding '"outlaw" horses and roping cattle, were tests of cowboys' ability to perform their chores. Spectacular frills arrived later. A Negro cowboy named Bill Pickett introduced steer-wrestling...
...Pendleton Herring, instructor in Government: "Special Interests and the Federal Bureaucracy...