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Last week, having won 22 of his 39 matches with Ellsworth Vines, freckled Donald Budge faced feline Fred Perry and the old Indian sign in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden in the first of a 36-match series. Almost before the latecomers in the choice $7.70 seats had a chance to count their change, Budge was leading 5-1. Perry changed rackets, but the unsmiling Budge boomed off the seventh game, and the next set was on. For the first four games of this, Perry held the redhead even with a great and foxy effort, but Budge...
...later Congresses, even under the New Deal, was duck soup. The first Congress had to make its rules, set up the Departments of State, Treasury and War, fill the Treasury (by tariffs which remained models of log-rolling for a century), set up the Federal judiciary (its designer, Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut, became fourth Chief Justice), assume the national and State ,debts (by trading to Virginia the capital site on the Potomac). All this it did, and more...
Marshals Richard H. Sullivan 231 Robert L. Green 202 Francis A. Hardling 200 Treasurer Frank P. Davidson 103 Chorister Russell Greenhood 187 Orator Richard Lewis 105 Odist Ellsworth Grant 179 Poet Robert Anderson...
...name of the U. S. (Franklin Roosevelt, Pres.), Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth last week claimed 400,000 square miles of snowy Antarctica...
...Ellsworth B. Buck is a hard-hitting business man who three years ago became a member of New York City's Board of Education. Mr. Buck was appalled to learn that the city's 400,000 junior and senior high-school pupils were taught virtually nothing about sex. He decided that something should be done about it. Last summer he saw his chance. From the Board of Superintendents came a new course of science study for junior high schools, proposing to teach pupils about reproduction among birds and flowers but not among animals. Mr. Buck & colleagues promptly sent...