Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Janizariat is ace high. Yet because his unswerving efforts in the Supreme Court fight and the Purge were known to be based more on loyalty than conviction, he stands almost as well with anti-Administrationists. Irish, homely, blunt, honest Joe Keenan has a few enemies, but they are mostly behind bars or under sod, like Machine-Gun Kelly...
Planners. A real estate man named Joe Dixon (who got a season pass to the fair for his pains) started the whole show exactly six years ago with a letter to the San Francisco News. Oilmen, steelmen and Mayor Angelo J. Rossi got behind Mr. Dixon's original idea, which was to celebrate completion of San Francisco's two great bridges. Chosen president of the fair corporation was Leland W. Cutler, who is no gardenia-fragrant showman like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen,* yet is just as sound a financier and heady planner. An engineer named...
...Quakers have met defeat at the hands of Columbia and have been blanked by Navy, putting them behind the Harvard team which won from Columbia and scored 7 1/2 points against the Middies. Last year the Crimson was also the favorite for the contest but emerged beaten. However, there is little chance for a recurrence of such an upset this year...
...also have not been startling this winter. Jim Curwen is sure to take both sprints handily, Eric Cutler and Frannie Powers will prevail over any Lion men in the distances, and Rusty Greenhood should have no trouble with Jack Keating of the Blue. In fact, Keating may take third behind Crimson's Chet Sagenkahn if the latter continues his consistent work on the springboard. The Columbia relay team, capable of 3:45, may prevail over a Harvard quartet minus Stowell and Bosworth...
...band to rank with Jimmy Dorsey and Bob Crosby as the best white band in the country. Norvo himself is superb, plays delicate expressive solos that cut right through you while at the same time managing to yield fine swing. The band itself has that colored lag, playing just behind the beat, that is so essential to good swing, while at the same time playing with a precision that few colored bands ever reach. Ray Noonan (trombone), Stewy McKay (tenor sax), and Buddy Christian (drums) all contribute to the fine jazz which this band turns out. Compare Norvo's records...