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...Bell, "and in the second place, these scholarships cover all sports, not just football." Maryland President Dr. Harry ("Curley") Byrd, an old footballer, frankly admitted the presence of 60 out-of-staters on undefeated Maryland's huge, 97-man football squad. "What of it?" Byrd growled. Basketball Coach Clair Bee, now acting president of Long Island University and a particular target of Judge Streit's indictment, defended the "tradition" of subsidization and declared: "I would do it the same way again." Said defiant Clair Bee: the "present mess is one of individuals and not the result of policy...
...years before World War I, Leon Jouhaux, radical young secretary general of France's labor federation (C.G.T.), raised the hair of his countrymen by plunging Paris into darkness, freezing the railroads and docks, introducing the quickie strike (grève éclair) and the slowdown (grève perlée). A red-hot anarcho-syndicalist risen from the factories, Jouhaux liked to boast that if war came, labor in all Europe would quench it by a general strike. But when war came, Jouhaux was a Frenchman after all. ("Heinous traitor," shrieked Lenin...
...sprawls there proudly, minding its enormous business. It has little of orthodox beauty. What beauty there is has to be sought out, along the shores of Lake St. Clair, behind the trees of the luxurious suburbs. It has another kind of beauty, which is to be found in the upthrust stacks and belching blast furnaces of the Ford plant, in the great assembly lines of glittering vehicles and machinery...
Smith arrived in New York on the Monday preceding the game, which was held on Saturday night. Both teams, whose rosters included most of the finest college seniors in the land, were accommodated at the Hotel Piccadilly. The East, coached by Long Island University's Clair Bee, scrimmaged the New York Knickerbockers on Tuesday, then held intra-squad workouts for the rest of the week...
...safe-deposit box. He had, he was quick to point out, paid federal income taxes on the money. Where did he get all that cash? Well, said English, it wasn't exactly his. It was left over from funds contributed by the good Democrats of St. Clair County, 111. for political campaigns. But he had bigheartedly paid personal income taxes on it, anyway, and was keeping it safe & sound until another big campaign came along...