Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt did not exactly reverse himself on his Tax Program last week (see col. 3). He simply surrendered the ball to his opposed advisers on the fourth down to let them see what they could do with it. By his speech to the Retailers week before he was still committed personally to more spending and the cart-before-the-horse theory that the New Deal would work economically when an 80-billion dollar income is achieved, a defense notably limned by Cartoonist Burt K. Thomas in the Detroit News...
...long way back of the leaders, Adams finished third this year with 1200 1/2 points. Winthrop's 1177 5-6 points gave the Puritans fourth place. Heading the second division is Eliot with 1095 points, followed by Leverett with 1033 2-3 points in sixth place. Dudley with 922 points in seventh, and the Funsters with 904 2-3 points in the cellar position...
Although Kirkland won only one spring sport, crew, by piling up seconds and thirds the Deacons widened their lead over the Bellboys. Lowell, however, won the inter-House track meet and tied with Adams in the baseball league. Fourth-place Winthrop copped House tennis honors...
...Norman castle, where once the Canada of long ago had its seat of Government, the King and Queen had dined [from the breasts of 2,000 snowbirds]. . . . The wine glasses were filled and Lieutenant-Governor Patenaude stood to propose the age-old toast, heard nightly across one-fourth the globe: 'Gentlemen, the King.' . . . From some far corner of that spacious ballroom a strong male voice sounded, rich and true...
...Stream off Palm Beach-and frequently anywhere from Palm Beach to Key West where the biggest Atlantic sail ever recorded (119 Ibs.) was caught in 1934. White Marlin (world's record 161 Ibs. ), presumably move up the coast from Miami in the spring, reach New Jersey about the Fourth of July. Blue Marlin are plentiful in the summer (from late June) at Bimini, B. W. I., famed fishing paradise of the Atlantic. There the world's record 636-pounder was boated in 1935. Broadbill, fishing for which is most difficult (because its soft mouth is hard to hook...