Word: aldriches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dick Manegold and Bill Sharpe comprise a good pair of guards, but with the probable absence of Fisher, the tackle reserves are not up to par. Jim Aldrich, Morris Gray, and Stan Durwood, who has been shifted from center, have not had much experience. Pop Jenks and Jack Morgan will assist Barnes and Forte at the flanks, while Richardson at center is good on the defense, but is weak on passing. Extensive signal practice has been the main activity this week. New plays, mainly for five and seven-man line defenses, have been added...
Margin for Error (by Clare Boothe; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers) breaks the jinx on anti-Nazi plays (five in a row flopped last season) by breaking the mold. Playwright Boothe makes everything Nazi-totsy by shifting her scene to the U. S., turning her tale into a lively mystery melodrama, and peppering it with wisecracks like those in The Women and Kiss the Boys Goodbye...
...fact, Taft was too scrupulous for his own good. In his private letters he said the things he should have said in public. He was almost smug about refusing to use his patronage powers to bring Congressmen into line. He outmaneuvered the silken Senator Nelson Aldrich on the tariff, forced substantial cuts, then watched the whole country go hog-wild over a headline which twisted a few forthright words in one of his speeches. The muckrakers were abroad in the land and Taft lacked T. R.'s flair for handling them. The great "scandal" of his administration...
...Chase National Bank, with its Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, its 43 branches, and its offices in ten cities, last week revealed that it had on hand some $3,097,011,177.46 with no place to go, that it had become the world's biggest bank...
...Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of the University, who is in charge of the circulation of printed materials in Uni- versity buildings, denied that he had taken any disciplinary action and repeated his statement that if the Communists wish to distribute leaflets, "they should do it during the day and not in the early hours of the morning...