Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's first year of full-time formal football since 1942 will mirror wartime adjustments within the eleven's traditional eight-game schedule. Athletic Director Bill Bingham's card for next fall, released today--with one date still open and pending--includes only four Ivy League opponents and adds one new and one long-removed team to the Crimson's docket...
Inside, a sergeant brusquely asked why they had been speeding. Schreiber, the driver, replied that he had driven at a moderate pace. Grey-haired, austere Fechner then produced his identity papers to show that he was party chairman, holder of Card No. 17 from the Committee for the Victims of Fascism, and authorized to drive...
...President shook his head. He wanted a hole card on the table. He needed the fleet in Hawaii as a "restraining influence on Japan." "But," protested "Joe" Richardson, "Japan has a military government which knows our fleet is undermanned . . . unprepared. . . ." "Despite what you believe," the President said, "I know that the presence of the fleet in the Hawaiian Islands has had-and is now having-a restraining in fluence...
...their struggle with General Motors, first target among the auto industry's Big Three, the United Automobile Workers played a last diplomatic trump card- an offer to arbitrate. But the union demanded that the arbiters have access to General Motors' books-a provision that was anathema to the company...
...Braves President Lou Perini's fat bankroll. It was a good bet that Southworth would soon corral, at a fancy price, some of the players who had hustled for him in St. Louis. It was equally likely that he would go on working wonders like his 1945 Card trick with Pitcher Charlie Barrett. Barrett, a no-count Brave tossed into the $50,000 deal for Mort Cooper, won 21 games for St. Louis under Southworth's persuasive handling...