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...phychological break of the game came at that time, when Hauptfuhrer went up for a rebound with three Tufts men, inadvertently knocking out captain Bob Cooney in the struggle for the ball. The ensuing "boo" inspired the wrong team, as the Crimson surged ahead, sparked by Prior and Hauptfuhrer...
Richard C. Harlow ran a poor fourth closely followed by William J. Bingham '16, head of the H.A.A., who appeared to have been the victim of ballot boo stuffing activities in Winthrop House...
...some hearty laughs. When a single boo rang out amid the cheers with which he was greeted before his speech in Los Angeles' Elks Temple, he ad-libbed: "Fellow Republicans and a Democrat, I hope!" When a questioner asked him when the income-tax law was going to be simplified, he said: "You know the income tax law is really very simple for most people. You just fill out a form, turn it over to check what your income is and that's the end of it. ..." A gale of laughter halted him, startled him, and then obviously...
...first "boo" came from J. M. Mehl, administrator of the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Exchange Authority. The Board of Trade's margin requirements, raised only the week before, were still too low, said Mehl. He asked that they be doubled in order to "lessen the danger of a boom-&-bust situation...
...Crimson editorialist fails altogether to grapple with the main question raised by the outshouting of Smith, which is: is it a denial of free speech for the audience to be rather louder than the man who is addressing it? Precedent is altogether in favor of the right to boo; hissing-down is a hoary Parliamentary tradition; if it appears indecorous, not cricket, or "rowdy," as your editorialist put it, pray recall that generations of English Lords have been experts at all manner of sibilances and razzberries. The demonstration was not really rowdy anyway: it was incredibly well-organized, although motivated...