Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a baseball pitcher pitches a no-hit game, he and his teammates are likely to exchange congratulations. Conversely, when the pitcher is being batted out of the box in a crucial moment, his own infielders are likely to find fault with him and with each other. That something of the latter sort was going on between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his circle of close advisers was suggested last week by two well-informed Washington observers...
...blow made premature world headlines as a "slap in the face," but it was a box on the ear, and internal bleeding began between the layers of the left eardrum. A blood clot formed, which caused the eardrum to burst, and at latest reports Commander Bower was said by the doctors to be in a "serious condition...
...courts" will deal with former Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg because he "criminally" ordered a "fake plebiscite," later canceled on the demand of Hitler (TIME, March 21). "None of Schuschnigg's supporters died for their convictions!" jeered Daredevil Göring. "But some of them fled with the cash box! . . . The tyrant was swept away and our troops marched in as brothers of a liberated people." Since there were undoubtedly hundreds, probably thousands of former supporters of Kurt von Schuschnigg in the throng of 25,000, their cheers were not entirely without significance...
Temple's Don Shields was the star of the tourney, Colorado's Byron ("Whizzer") White its No. 1 box-office attraction. A better football than basketball player, Rhodes Scholar-designate White grinned his way through the final game, once turned to a teammate and audibly asked, "How do you like this part of the country, my friend?" Day after the final, Whizzer visited the New York Stock Exchange. Trading (such as there was) stopped five full minutes while brokers cheered...
...market crash gave many brokers the choice of crockery or failure-Richard J. Daly, who pleaded guilty to hypothecating $150,000 in customers' securities last June; two partners of Jesse Hyman & Co. convicted of grand larceny together with William F. Enright, who had charge of the security box of Winthrop, Mitchell & Co., after this reputable firm discovered Enright had lent some $2,000,000 of its customers' funds to the Hyman partners; the floor partner of Thomas & Griffith, suspended from dealing on the Exchange for three years because the firm had over-hypothecated customers' funds...