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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picked team of U. S. women tennists: the Wightman Cup, for the eighth year in a row; defeating a picked team of Britons, five matches to two; before a crowd of 12,000; at Wimbledon. In the singles, Helen Wills Moody won both her matches, but Alice Marble, U. S. No. 1, lost one match to Britain's No. 4, Kay Stammers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...Chairman William O. Douglas last week sat down with a round table of Exchange members, potent Wall Street investment bankers and representatives of the big insurance companies. Ideas broached to aid the Exchange included: 1) lowering the commission charged from one-quarter of a point to the one-eighth generally charged OTC; 2) admitting big bond dealers and institutions to associate membership on the Exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bond Battles | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

When the two-day totals were tallied, the University of Southern California, absent from I.C. 4-A meets since 1935, had spreadeagled the field, won the team championship for the eighth time since it first competed 14 years ago. Although its 17-man team won only two events and tied for a third, it placed in the ten events in which it was entered, amassed a total of 4?i points, almost twice as many as the runner-up, Michigan State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cromwell's Crop | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

During its 80 years of continuous publication, the Atlantic Montlily has had eight editors. The first seven*served for the first 50 years. This month, the eighth, Ellery Sedgwick, gave up his title after 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Atlantic Pilot | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Aside from this fourth inning it was a pretty good game. Holy Cross scored their one earned run in the second innings, an unearned one in the sixth, and two more in the eighth...

Author: By Morris Earle, | Title: CRIMSON CRUMPLES IN 13-5 BASEBALL DEFEAT | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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