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This time it was Panzer trouble. Captain Hugh B. Ellis of the Red troops, a scholarly officer whose spectacles were now flaked with mud, was in his way with a small holding force. Tank guns barked. Soldiers shouted as they piled off truck and tank and into the fray. Colonel Morris laid down a smoke screen, called for help from his accompanying artillery...
...highly-touted Marine team proved inadequate to meet the vigorous onslaught of the younger, more practiced Harvards and dropped the contest 2 to 1. A gallery of about 30 marines and sailors from H.M.S. "Newcastle" watched the fray...
This will be the first appearance of the Varsity this season and the contest will be entirely unofficial and informal. Next Saturday is the opening date for the Varsity when they meet Tufts at home. In the interim they will have a practice fray with the Royal Marines of the British Navy. That game will take place Wednesday afternoon...
Since the war began the "Newcastle" has soon action in northern, Mediterranean, and southern waters. First she served on the Iceland patrol, where her eight-inch guns saw special action in an all-night fray with the merchantman "Parana...
This particular phase of Wall Street's long fray with SEC started in February 1940, when Morgan Stanley agreed to let SEC "impound" the fees due them on a Dayton Power Co. bond issue, until SEC made sure the bankers were no "affiliate" of the utility. At the time, this seemed like a mere formality to Morgan Stanley; they certainly were not affiliated with Dayton Power, the money was just as good as theirs. But it wasn't. Last April (TIME, April 14) SEC (in what Morgan Stanley termed a "fantasy") declared Morgan Stanley was a Dayton Power...