Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goalie Freedley saved the Crimson puckmen in many a close spot. Jameson, as a defense man, was a blue line bulwark...
...exact position unknown to the entire world, he played defending the Western Hemisphere with the bulk of the U. S. Navy. Submitting himself to strict wartime naval censorship, Commander-in-Chief Roosevelt dropped out of sight with Admiral Leahy on the cruiser Houston after steaming in for a close look at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, receiving Governor Lawrence Cramer of the Virgin Islands on board in St. Thomas Harbor, and paying a courtesy call on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius ("Statia"). The President let it be known that he was following every minutest move of the opposing forces...
...Chairman Ed Birmingham of Iowa's State Democratic Committee came close to spoiling the scenery with a blob of politics just before the curtain went up on Mr. Hopkins' act. Zealous candidate for the vacant throne of the Bureau of Fisheries in Mr. Hopkins' department, Mr. Birmingham gave the impression that Iowa delegates were being lined up for Mr. Hopkins' nomination as President next year. Mr. Birmingham was quickly shushed, but no political observer missed the point that the prize at stake in Harry Hopkins' performance was not just one State's convention delegates...
Settlement of the TVA dispute three weeks ago on close to Wendell Willkie's terms was clear enough evidence of the New Deal's intent to break the utility log jam. Besides that, Treasury experts have already drafted 85 proposed revisions of taxes which now deter business; Franklin Roosevelt himself last week plumped for A. F. of L. -C. I. 0. peace and proposals by the nation's stock exchanges to reshape the Securities acts in order to revive the dormant capital market have actually been "welcomed...
...Feslermen face an Eli five which has knocked on the door of several upsets, but fortune has not been so kind to the Blue. Every time they have turned in a good game, it has meant a close defeat like the two thrillers with the Dartmouth Indians. The result of all of this has been that the Loefflermen have been pushed deep into the E. I. L. cellar with a record of one win against nine losses. A sweep of the two game Harvard series for the Elis would give them a mythical Big Three championship...