Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Stephen J. ("Steve") Farrell, 69, longtime (1912-30) University of Michigan track coach; of a heart attack; on the university golf course at Ann Arbor. Connecticut-born, he learned to run as a volunteer fireman, was a harness-mate of three fleet youngsters famed in later years as Princeton's white-polled Keene Fitzpatrick, Harvard's "Pooch" Donovan and "Mike" Murphy of Yale, Hill School and Pennsylvania, all track coaches. Never an amateur, Farrell became so famed a professional that U. S. backers sent him to England where he twice won the rich Sheffield Handicap. The Barnum...
...Aldermanic meetings opened with prayer earned him the nickname "Holy Joe." As Acting Mayor, he announced before a patronage conference with Tammany Leader John Francis Curry: "I am an organization Democrat, always have been, always will be." But he dismissed a Tammany department chief for incompetence, disbanded the fleet of expensive city-owned motor cars, was on his way to effect $80,000,000 in municipal economies when the Tammany-controlled Board of Estimate took the budget out of his hands. As a result of his regularity, when his candidacy was announced organization Democrats defected from Tammany in wholesale lots...
Soon the shocking word flew through Scotland, through England: a mutiny of enlisted men on the Hood! Everyone remembered that the September mutiny two years ago broke out while the Atlantic fleet was stationed near Invergordon, a few miles from Nigg (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Stiffly Sir Bolton Eyres-Mon-sell, First Lord of the Admiralty, arched his right eyebrow a little higher with a denial. He said that certain maneuvers in the North Sea whither the Hood was bound had been postponed because of "heavy gales." At the Admiralty offices in London, the duty officer in command refused...
...fleet Crimson backs, Lane, Locke, Adzigian, and Pescosolido ran wild through the visitors' defense and restored cheer to the coach's heart by chalking up a total of 470 yards gained from the scrimmage. Passes figured only slightly in the game for Coach Casey was determined to check up on his groundwork. Five aerials were attempted and none completed. A spectacular spinner play put in its appearance, or rather, attracted unusual attention by reason of its effectiveness, and Harvard managed to rip open the Wildcats' line for long gains on this bit of deception...