Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...king-makers!" The "king-makers," they asserted, were six members who have attempted to dictate Legion policies and were thumping for Hayes. They named them as Broker Philip Collins of Chicago; John D. Ewing, publisher of the Shreveport, La. Times; Ben Doris of Oregon; William Doyle of Massachusetts; Patrick Cliff of Minnesota; Edward Neary of New York. In his speech of acceptance Commander Hayes declared: "No one will direct the policies of your national commander except the rank and file...
...players have already been put through several tough scrimmages and Coach Cliff Gallagher has lined up a Team a recruited from schoolboy gridiron stars. Richard D. Pedrick seems to have the edge over the other quaiter backs in the signal calling post and teams up well with George S. Ford, Lee A. Faker, and Thomas H. Riledean to complete the first-string backfield...
...Freshmen reported for the first practice session and after the usual preliminaries Coach Cliff Gallagher chose 12 teams at random and ran through a few plays. The squad boasts many school-boy stars but is some lighter than the usual...
...Horacio Ferrer who had been President de Cespedes' Secretary of War. Sergeant Fulgencio Batista left that meeting in a towering rage, his face dark with blood, surrounded by 24 bodyguards armed with machine-guns. The officers retired to Havana's National Hotel, strategically isolated on a cliff-walled hill. Even more strategic, the National Hotel housed U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles and Cuba's Financial Adviser Adolf Augustus Berle...
...buck saved itself. Gently urged by two wardens it walked unassisted to a spot where the ledge sloped least steeply to the gorge's bottom. As some experts had predicted it would do when its injury was mended, it braced its forelegs, slid smoothly down the 35-ft. cliff, loped easily up the other side and out of the national spotlight...