Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governorship of this State. ... I declined the offer. ... I did not think that I had experience and knowledge of public affairs wide enough. . . . Besides, I did not think it quite right to abandon in midstream an important public job" [Assistant Secretary of the Navy]. This was a crack at Thomas Dewey, 36, stepping out of his unfinished job as District Attorney in New York County to run against Democratic Governor Lehman...
There was evidence of this fundamental shift of the sources of Chiang's supplies last week. Chiang's crack troops, withdrawn from Hankow in plenty of time, were armed with 100 new tanks and newly arrived Russian artillery...
...Ministry of Justice. This was quickly done with no Cabinet crisis. After the swap new Finance Minister Reynaud announced he would not answer his telephone for five days, promised by then to have drawn up a new financial program. This was expected to be "orthodox," that is, not to crack down on private capital or private initiative, but to continue "democratic" efforts to coax and induce a financial recovery in France and "balance the budget." Without quite knowing what steps M. Reynaud was going to take, M. Marchandeau snorted that "similar measures have failed at least three times before...
...Horse Show Association opened its 53rd show. In spite of decolletage, diamonds and decorative elegance on view in the boxes, the most colorful costumes were in the ring. This year the Horse Show had brought to Manhattan its most successful feature to date, 40 members of Canada's crack cavalry unit, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, senior regiment of Canada's Army...
Because the Law School's Chancery Club defeated the Sink A. C. yesterday, 48 to 12, in touch football, they will, as champion Law team, meet the crack Business School aggregation next week. At the same time, the winners of the inter-House touch crown will meet the top School of Education squad soon, and the winners of the two games are to play for the mythical championship of Harvard University...