Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Securities & Exchange Commission tends to try its cases in newspapers before they are tried in courts. A crackdown from SEC begins with published charges based on what SEC "has reason to believe and does believe." Invariably the crackdown makes headlines, while the routine denial of the unhappy crack-downee is buried at the bottom of the column. Particularly irritated by this procedure because the firm was just getting on its feet after a severe Depression deflation was Otis & Co. Cyrus ("The Great") Eaton's Cleveland banking house which was charged last spring with market rigging (TIME, April...
McGill still has the best players from its crack team of last season, and a few left from the truly famous 1934 six. Mike Moiklejohn is still there, one of the outstanding defensemen in amateur hockey in Canada, and Gordie Crutchfield and Paul Pidcock are sinking many, many goals in the nets of their luckless American opponents...
Already the star has given one or two preliminary "pops", and observers believe that this is significant of further developments. The installation of the new 200-inch telescope at the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California is expected to help crack this problem as well as that of what lies beyond the edge of the universe. It is thought that the nebulae which can be perceived through present telescopes are embryonic solar systems...
...Farley, who originated the remark, "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont". On election night, as returns flashed in to indicate a Roosevelt landslide, I wrote out the crack, marked it "col and ½ 8 pt. bold face," handed it to the linotyper. It was printed in the paper of Nov. 4 and the copy for the remark, as I can prove, was stamped about 10:20 p. m. Nov. 3. JULIUS MILTON WESTHEIMER...
...political serenity, boom Havana tourist trade, Cuba's idealistic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias last autumn hit on the idea of a Christmas Sports Festival. Main events on a week-long schedule were to be a New Year's Day football game between two crack U. S. college teams; an amateur boxing tournament; jai-alai matches; an international basketball tournament; the baseball championship of Cuba. As a special opening attraction, Cuban Sports Commissioner Carlos L. Henriquez, one-time Columbia footballer, dug up the ancient stunt of a race between a human and a horse, with famed Jesse...