Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Mr. Bingham's attitude is well known, we doubted its news value but beggars can't be choosers. Over the phone he told us that no team would leave these shores if Jews were not given an equal chance. Since we tend to think of Mr. Bingham only as Harvard's athletic director, we construed this to mean a Harvard team. We failed to take account of his post as a member of the Olympics Committee, an error for which we apologize...
Meanwhile last week another fight which will be fought the same day as the Baer v. Louis engagement with equal significance to prizefight enthusiasts was receiving no ballyhoo at all. This was the fight between Colonel John S. Hammond, board chairman and principal stockholder of Madison Square Garden Corp., and Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick, president and lesser stockholder, for control of the No. 1 sports-promoting organization...
...four of the world's major golf champion-ships-U. S. and British Open, U. S. and British Amateur-in the single season of 1930, he accomplished a feat which seemed clearly incomparable. At Cleveland last week, another golfer accomplished a feat which, if not quite the equal of Jones's "grand slam," was definitely comparable to it and in some respects even more remarkable. William Lawson Little Jr. of San Francisco won the U. S. Amateur Championship for the second year in a row, after winning the British Amateur...
Sorriest Class I railroad in the U. S. is Minneapolis & St. Louis ("The Peoria Gateway"). It has been in receivership for twelve years, owes accumulated interest equal to one-fourth of its assets, which are largely nominal, and is still indebted to the Government for loans from the Wartime Director General of Railroads. In desperation RF Chairman Jesse Jones proposed to partition M. & St. L. among eight more solvent neighbors (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week after a year of dickering, the eight systems petitioned the Interstate Commerce for permission to start carving...
...modern fiction. And in keeping the first volumes of his masterwork prosaic and detailed, it may well be that the Frenchman is merely preparing the ground for the great climax that will take place when war eventually breaks and when the shells that fall on Paris will explode with equal justice on men of good will...