Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On the Fourth of July at the State Department, plodding Secretary Cordell Hull said that he had received a flash from the U. S. acting Chargé d'Affaires at Addis Ababa giving the gist of the Emperor's appeal but that the U. S. Government obviously could...
¶ Said Baron Gottfried von Cramm, first German tennist to reach a Wimbledon final since the War, "He was very, very much too good for me." "He" was Frederick John Perry, ablest British tennist since the Doherty brothers, who, playing far better than a year ago, had won the Men...
*Also challenged last week was French Tennist Jean Borotra by Paris Sportswriter Didier Poulain, as the culmination of an exchange of insults started by Sportswriter Poulain's insistence that Borotra had let France down by refusing to play singles in the French Davis Cup matches.
What the Morning Telegraph is to race-track addicts in New York, L'Auto is to sports enthusiasts in Paris. Last fortnight, L'Auto published a letter by Didier Poulain, its tennis expert, denouncing famed Jean Borotra for "letting France down" by not playing singles on France'...
In the usually calm days of Wimbledon's first week, the Borotra-Poulain uproar was by far the most disturbing circumstance. In the grandstands, enlarged this year, bigger crowds than ever before -more than 25,000 every afternoon- watched the matches. They saw Borotra indicate that he might not...