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That is not the sort of achievement which could have been expected under the political Secretaries who preceded Stimson-men like Weeks, Good, Hurley, Dern, Woodring. Most of the political department heads either meddled witlessly or let the Army run itself while they busied themselves with other things...
...Postmaster General under Herbert Hoover, had granted lush mail-subsidy contracts to major airlines, had thus evaded the law requiring competitive bidding for Government contracts. The President did not wait to ask questions. He called in Postmaster General Farley, Attorney General Cummings, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Secretary of War Dern. Then he canceled the airmail contracts and ordered the Army to take over the flying of the U.S. mail until a new contract-subsidy system had been worked...
...Look at those Dern Elis Sprole all over the Bowl when our blockers take Potts shots at 'em. The way our tackle hits the Brooks, you'd think he could Reid, and our ends have been Harrison the Bulldog passer and knocking him Zilly on every play. The game shapes up as Mosely a one-sided affair to me, though it might be close. We'll either Knapp them at the tape or Ellis it'll be a slaughter...
...Opponents Eleven End Gustafson Penn End Bartholemy Yale Tackle Brooks Yale Tackle Sommers Dartmouth Guard Dacey Dartmouth Guard Dern Yale Center Frick Penn Back Reagan Penn Back Hutchinson Dartmouth Back Peters Princeton Back Seymour Yale...
Speedy Dan Dacey of Dartmouth led the guards by a comfortable margin, but Jim Dern of Yale nosed out Lou Young, Dacey's running mate, by only one vote. Yale might have been voted a fifth place in the person of center Bill Stack, but since he was unable to play against Harvard. Penn's Frick gets the nod over Alger of Princeton for the pivot...