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Bill Lincoln, pitching ace of the Crimson team, and Captain Roy Woodworth, who beat Harvard twice last year, 2-1, and 9-4, will be the opposing slabsters, and are counted on for airtight exhibitions of twirling...
...York City civic associations rose up and roared against Secretary Ickes and President Roosevelt. The city's newspapers made out an airtight case of political spitework by the New Deal against last year's Republican nominee for Governor. Mr. Moses refused to resign either of his jobs. Instead he revealed that as early as last February, and twice since, Secretary Ickes had asked New York's Mayor LaGuardia to remove him from the Bridge Authority as unfriendly to the New Deal. Put on the defensive, Secretary Ickes barked: "When I issue an order...
With censorship around the Kremlin airtight, travelers leaving Russia reported that at Leningrad the local Gay-pay-oo, in panic at Stalin's arrival to investigate Kirov's death fortnight ago, refused to admit agents of the Moscow Gay-pay-oo who accompanied the Dictator...
...held by Italy's Renato Donati. Because of the thin air and -70° temperature of the stratozone, Pilot Post had encased himself in a grotesque suit made of white asbestos. Topping it was a big metal helmet with one panel of thick glass. Inside this airtight, electrically heated outfit, oxygen was fed under pressure to chubby, tousle-haired Pilot Post. On his first flight Post got lost, had trouble with his oxygen valve, spent some bad moments in fear he might literally blow up. On the second, his motor quit, forced him to make a dead-stick landing...
Providence, December 11--Wes Fosler's team belied initial appearances by going down to a crushing defeat 45 to 21 before an airtight Providence College five here today. The Crimson was completely out-classed, and was never in the game after the first ten minutes...