Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colorist and singer of old war songs, is the Senior Baron Hachiroemon, 14th Baron Mitsui and Head of the House. Until last year he left as many details as possible to the gentle, astute old man who was called "the Prime Minister of the Mitsui Empire," Baron Dr. Takuma Dan. Patriots assassinated Dr. Dan (TIME, March 14. 1932), partly because he was supposed to have made too much money for the Mitsuis by selling Japan's yen short before it was taken off gold. Ever since Mitsui short-selling was exposed the various young patriots tried in Japan...
...these decisions occurred in the Army-Illinois game. A field judge disallowed a place kick goal by Army because the player holding the ball had let both knees touch the ground. The referee was sure that the rules exempted the ball-holder, but the field judge, Massachusetts Boxing Commissioner Dan Kelly, convinced him the rules had been changed. The judge was wrong. That same afternoon a Pennsylvania kick bounced off a Dartmouth player's back. A Pennsylvania man picked up the ball, ran it over the line. On Dartmouth's protest the officials canceled the touchdown because...
...team from Fort Riley, Kans., winner of last year's title, was slow to start. The Irish Free State squad forged to the front with faultless rides by its Leader Captain Dan Corry and Captain Fred Ahearn. On Swedish Day the Swedish team celebrated by nosing into first place while the Irish dropped to third behind the U. S. The finals found Lieut. Carl Raguse of the U. S. matched against Sweden's Lieut. Nyblaeus for the deciding round. Mounted on Ugly, Lieut. Raguse cleared every barrier without a fault. Lieut. Nyblaeus had to equal that performance...
...General Farley. The Carter v. Ferguson feud is an old one. At a football game in 1925, Amon Carter, full of high spirits, paraded back & forth behind the Fergusons' seats crowing in behalf of the man who succeeded Mrs. Ferguson after her first term as Governor: "Hooray for Dan Moody!" Jim Ferguson offered $500 to any police officer who would arrest Amon Carter. The offer was not taken up. When he found the Fergusons had horned in on a party of his last week, Amon Carter stomped away, did not return to his box until they had gone...
...ball after a Yale kick had been blocked. The contention of the Bruins was that the Yale player picked up the oval behind the goal-line and thus deprived them of a legitimate safety. The other faux pas was the incident in the Army-Illinois contest, when Referee Dan Kelly refused to allow an Army place-kick because the holder had both knees on the ground...