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Phillips turned in the good time of 19:06, just five seconds slower than Tim Coggeshall's record clocking a week before. The promised duel between Phillips and Coggeshall could not be realized because the Crimson cinderman contracted German measules, but the two boys will meet again later this month...
...Saturday, when Tim Coggeshall led four other Crimson runners across the finish line, leaving the visitors far in the van. Tomorrow, however, Tuft's Roy Phillips, diminutive distance ace who placed second in the IC4A meet at New York, will be on hand, and there should be a good duel between him and Coggeshall. Starting time is 3 o'clock...
...Cross Knight, Herbie Hoover, on his glistening white charger, Constitution, the forces of the Right were prepared for a duel to the death with the "un-American" American laborer and the New Deal on the "D-Day" report of the National Resources Planning Board. The plan, highly similar to the British Beveridge Report, has called for a greatly extended social security program, post-war maintenance of full employment guaranteed by the government, and larger government cooperation with industry as well as a share in management by labor. The plan is, admittedly, only a recommendation to Congress; details of legislation, administration...
...main topic will be "Germany and Russia: a Duel for Central Europe," and will include lesser matters such as to what extent should nationalism exist after the war, what does Russia want, should there be self-determination for the people conquered by the Axis, and independence vs. minority rights...
Like his 20-year-long political career, his personal life was full of dash and fire. He once resigned from a War Minister's post to fight a duel, then took office once more the next day. In 1934 he wanted to sue the U.S. for "besmirching Argentines' reputation" in the course of a U.S. Senate investigation. When Brazil declared war on the Axis he asked for-and got-a commission as general in the Brazilian Army...