Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep a grip on the Federal Government. At Des Moines he sent a shudder through the financial world by declaring that the U. S. had been "within two weeks" of going off the gold standard last winter. In New York he seriously predicted that a Democratic victory would "crack the timbers of the Constitution" and cause "grass to grow in the streets'' of many an industrial city. In his West Coast speech last week he pointed proudly to R. F. C. relief to California, Oregon and Washington much as a Congressman points to the "pork" he has obtained...
...team that won only one game last season, to one that last fortnight held Michigan 14-to-7 and last week smothered Lehigh, 53 to 0. Affable and optimistic. Coach Crisler does not object to his nickname "Fritz." He learned his football at Chicago where he was a crack end in 1920 and 1921. Pleased by the success of Coach Crisler, Princetonians were recently grieved to learn that grizzled little Keene Fitzpatrick, head track coach since 1910, football kicking coach and chief Princeton trainer for all sports, plans to retire at the end of this season...
Against the crack ships of Sir Percy's fleet, the Berengaria, Aquitania and Mauretania, Lord Essendon pits his Majestic, "world's biggest ship," his Olympic, his new Georgic. Both face stern competition from the French Line, the North German Lloyd-Hamburg-American combination, U. S. Lines and to a lesser extent from Il Duce's Italia Line. Though Tsar Emil Lederer of the Transatlantic Passenger Conference keeps fares equalized for all, the fight for traffic is hot, the profits nil. Only big British shipping concern to escape the woes of the North Atlantic dogfight is the late...
Fighting perhaps for their lives, certainly for King and Country, burly bobbies used their truncheons with just one idea, to crack as many crowns as possible. "This correspondent saw one ragged, emaciated man beaten over the head until he was unconscious," cabled United Pressman Herbert Moore. "When he, an old man with a grey beard, was taken to a hospital, doctors said he had concussion of the brain and might not live...
...Samuel Jr. arrived in London on the crack Golden Arrow, disguised himself by taking off his spectacles, hurried to the Park Lane Hotel. "I feel like a carp taken from a muddy river and put in a goldfish bowl, under a spotlight," he told newshawks. "I have lost a fortune and now I have only a salary. I am on vacation and my boss, James Simpson, expects me back in November." In Chicago it was revealed that Samuel Jr.'s salary is $100,000 a year -$25,000 each from four Insull utilities...