Word: franks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lost in the shuffle in a star-studded V. F. W. track meet at the East Armory last night, 11 of Jaako Mikkola's shock-troopers brought home no points, and little else besides experience. Charley Smith and Frank Neal reached the semi-finals in the dash, and Langdon Burwell came in sixth out of a field...
Senators wanted to know if, as the Wisconsin Legislature had averred, he was Communistic. "I am not a Communist," Tom Amlie said. "My differences with Communism are fundamental. . . . To charge me with being a Communist . . . is just as ridiculous as charging Glenn Frank." Fear of fascism in the U. S., he said, was his reason for advocating some form of democratic collectivism involving production control...
...into public service (State Relief, NRA, NEC, Housing). A Republican by family precept, he had long been a friend of Franklin Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Delano, in the early New Deal years came to know and admire the President. So he was not astounded when onetime NEC Director Frank Walker met him in the lobby of Washington's Hotel Mayflower shortly after the 1936 elections, suggested he visit the White House next day. He was sworn in as Assistant Secretary...
Then it was Warren Williams '39 and John Glidden '41, who clinched the victory. Williams outstroked H. Waters in four games, while Glidden had to travel five in subduing S. Smith. On the debit side, Frank Appleton '39 and John Palfrey '40 lost to Stillmen and Fisharty respectively in five-game affairs while Bill Wood '40 could take only one of the four games from S. Pitman of Yale...
What Crimson honors there were, Johnny Bunker. Bill Young, Frank Hubbard, and Art Mason afforded. Bunker took a first in the high jump by clearing the bar at six feet, and Hubbard pulled through with a win in the 60-yard dash by lowering his own time to 6.6 seconds. Mason hurled the twelve-pound shot 50 feet, and outdistanced Shattuck of Exeter to place in the number one position. By racing the 800-yard run in 1:19.3, Young took that event for Harvard...