Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt, master of words, is allergic to certain words with which the press has ticketed his acts. He disliked "death sentence" when applied to his holding-company bill. He felt that "court-packing plan" was unjust to his attempted reform of the Federal judiciary. "Purge" he hated; it smacked of Stalin and Hitler. By last week a new word annoyed him: "appeasement," as applied to his big push to restore Business confidence. "Appeasement" sounded as though he had done something to Business for which he now sought to apologize...
Seven ski teams, including the Crimson contingent led by Captain Bill Hinton, will compete on the Bear Mountain trail at Bartlett on Sunday in the third annual Schussverein downhill race...
Eric Cutler, of Harvard, Russell Greenhood, of Harvard, Bill Garrett, of Army, and Justin Callahan, of Columbia were the men who copped League titles. Cutler won the quarter-mile in 4.57.6, a new meet record, and a personal record for the Crimson captain-elect. He eclipsed Harry Rawstrom's old mark of 5:03.7, made last year...
PARIS--Premier Edouard Daladier today presented to the French Chamber of Deputies a bill which would give him dictatorial powers, including those of mobilization, to meet the threat of Nazi expansion, the most sweeping powers which any French premier has enjoyed since the World...
Fighting with Captain Batchelder in the sabre division today will be Joe Doyle and Tom Wright, assisted by Art Jaros, Cranston Jones, and Al Labastic in the foils. Holding down the epee positions are Bill Coach, Ames Murphy, and Hal Park...