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...Reed to conduct the Government's successful defense of a collateral gold clause case before the Supreme Court in 1935 he was still more impressed, got him the appointment of assistant attorney general and that same year persuaded Franklin Roosevelt that Stanley Reed should be given the Solicitor Generalship, highest legal command save Homer Cummings' in the first great war between the New Deal and the Supreme Court...
...second (over-the-weight) meeting two months later. Last week, with his title at stake, Champion Ross outboxed and gamely outfought Challenger Garcia until the twelfth round. Then, fatigued and bruised by Garcia's punishing gloves, he fought gamely on, contrived by a magnificent display of ring generalship to keep out of danger until the finish, brought the stands to their feet in admiration...
...Booth dynasty in India 50 years ago, when he joined the Army under Commissioner Edward Booth-Tucker, son-in-law of Founder William Booth. Mapp moved upward alone, to become the Army's Chief-of-Staff, administrator of some 26,000 officers and candidate for its Generalship when General Edward John Higgins made ready to retire. But formidable Evangeline won that post (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934) Implacably last week she ousted Commissioner Mapp from...
Though Sir Henri last week retired from his Royal Dutch Director Generalship, it was being said in London financial circles last week that he is not the sort of man to be idle very long, that he is probably laying bait to hock concessions and contracts from Dictator Hitler as soon as Germany gets back her "stolen" colonies...
...ball, a slippery field and no Davie Davis," ruefully explained Coach Howard Jones of Southern California, mourning the loss of his dynamic little quarterback, out with a torn rib cartilage in the first quarter. Coach Jones did not explain weak passing, bad kicking, silly generalship, as a defensive Washington State team played his would-be champions to a 0-to-0 standstill...