Word: pennsylvanians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Director Dana had brought art to the people by such further innovations as museum branches (in his own branch libraries), free tours for school children, exhibitions of well-designed articles bought for a dime apiece in the city stores, a "lending collection" of art objects ranging from Tibetan to Pennsylvanian, packed in neat boxes and borrowed like library books. When John Cotton Dana died ten years ago this month, he had coaxed the annual city appropriation from $10,000 to $150,000, upped annual attendance to 125,000, won the title of "Newark's First Citizen...
Cornell was voted almost unanimously into first place by the sports editors of the Brown Daily Herald, the Yale Daily News, the Columbia Spectator, the Daily Pennsylvanian, the CRIMSON, and the Dartmouth. Dartmouth was a close second, while Pennsylvania. Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Princeton, and Yale followed in the order given...
This year, with a $140,000,000 appropriation, REA hopes to triple its loans and its importance. REA's dynamo is Administrator John Michael Carmody, a Pennsylvanian who went to the New Deal as chief engineer for the Civil Works Administration, was one of the early members of the National Labor Relations Board. Thin-thatched, energetic Administrator Carmody can be tough on occasion, especially when he discovers that private utility companies have built "spite lines...
...tall, weather-beaten Pennsylvanian, Cover has none of the dramatic fatalism of a movie test pilot. Cool and reliable, he was once an army flying instructor. When he was testing the DCi, the port engine almost died when the plane was only 50 ft. up. He calmly wheeled for a landing, missing a tree by feet. As the engine picked up he decided not to land, flew on for a successful test with the engine sputtering...
...Republican side of the picture is quieter, although Gifford Pinchot, without whose name no Pennsylvanian ballot would be complete, is opposing an organization candidate for the gubernatorial nomination. Senator James J. Davis, one of the tiny group of G. O. P. members left in the Senate, is conceded renomination...