Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lots of baseball fans, loyal rooters for the home team though they are, leave the game after the eighth inning to avoid the crush after the ninth. Last week that kind of discretion may have motivated the resignation of one of Franklin Roosevelt's most faithful and useful sub-Cabinet henchmen: chunky, chipmunk-cheeked Joseph Berry ("Joe") Keenan, 51, who was called from his profitable Cleveland law practice to assist Attorney-General Homer Cummings with criminal prosecutions at the peak of the Kidnap Era (1933) and who stayed on to become chief White House overseer of the Senate, especially...
...racial bills facing probable defeat, Dr. Imredy was forced to admit that he had made an embarrassing and belated discovery. A deeper search into genealogical records had uncovered the unfortunate fact that his maternal great-grandfather had been born a Jew and that he himself was thus one-eighth Jewish. After some necessary promptings by old Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, Dr. Imredy resigned in a mood of self-immolation. Said he: "I held, and still hold, that legislation for the regulation of Jewish participation in the economic and cultural affairs of the country is a good thing...
Coach Fesler's five is hanging precariously close to the cellar occupants, the Elis, in the E. I. L., and a win over the Quakers would work wonders for the Crimson. This is their eighth league clash of the year against league opposition...
Inside Red China, by the good-looking wife of Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China), describes four months spent in Yenan, former headquarters of the Chinese Soviet Republic (now the "Frontier Districts of Shensi, Kansu and Ningsia") and the Red Army (now the Eighth Route Army). Written a year after her husband brought out his sensational account of the Chinese Soviets, her book duplicates much of the material in his, but is more personalized, has more to say about the women leaders who survived the epochal 6,000-mile "Long March" (when the Communists retreated in 1934 from South China...
William J. Dingham '16, Director of Athletics, earned his share of reflected glory when he mounted a step-ladder with a tape measure to confirm the record-breaking leap of 14 feet 6 and one-eighth inches made by Cornelius Warmerdam; the crowd roared its approval...