Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the new Transamerica board, most of whom are "dummies" to be replaced later by Californians. elected Mr. Giannini chairman. Taking a last crack at the Walker management, Mr. Giannini announced that he would serve without compensation in contrast to the former chairman's salary of $100.000. John M. Grant, manager of Transamerica's London office, was made president, replacing James Augustus Bacigalupi, onetime staunch Giannini friend...
...mile relay Harvard will use the same four men who ravin the Prout games,--Pearson, Morse, Record, and Dodge. With Captain McCafferty again available for Holy Cross, The chances are that the crack Purple quartet will outstride the Crimson four...
Coach Clifford Gallagher and Manager A.L. Mason '32 yesterday started their University wrestlers down for Annapolis, where the Crimson grapplers will face a crack Navy team at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The midshipmen have defeated Lehigh 23 to 12 and overwhelmed Princeton, 25 to 3; a meet with Oklahoma is the sole Navy loss to date. After the Harvard meatmen have met the Navy team, which is given strong odds of winning, they will journey vai Washington to Princeton and will meet the Tiger wrestlers on Monday afternoon...
...International Police Force (ultimate name unimportant} to swing the above nightsticks and crack them over the heads of sovereign states which do not toe the mark of International Decency...
...time-4 min. 12 sec.-equalled the indoor world's record set ten days earlier by Paavo Nurmi. Lasi week Gene Venizke, a 23-year-old German-American of Boyerstown, Pa., who was unknown two years ago and no better than a steady pacesetter last year, beat a crack field in a mile race for the Wanamaker Memorial Trophy. His time, 4 min. 11, sec., became the new world's record...