Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First and foremost is the question of finding a new spinning back, key man of the Harlow offense. Vernon Struck will be there, fresh from experience in the All-Star game, in which he and guard Joe Nee, also from the class of 1938, were chosen to participate. But Struck cannot be used again; he will be in a backfield coaching capacity...
...exists also in the guard ranks, with the graduation of Allen, Nee and Klein. Question-marks are Chief Boston, out of spring practice due to illness and an appendix operation, center Tim Russell, injured practically all of last season, and Torby MacDonald, sensational wingback, who took the place of the injured Bob Stuart last year, but who has been harassed by leg-trouble since...
...pleaded for a larger trust-busting corps-one comparable with SEC's 1,200 or Civil Aeronautics Authority's 2,800. He now has a staff of 65. Said he: "You can't police a country as large as America with a corporal's guard." Meanwhile, as such outbursts spurred vacationless lawyers ransacking files for anything that the Congressional Monopoly Investigation committee might conceivably regard as incriminating evidence, the dogged Federal Trade Commission continued unheralded its 24-year-old pursuit of anti-trust law violators and unfair trade practicers...
Franklin Roosevelt did not keep reporters waiting long. His swiftness caught them off guard. To a luncheon at the Warm Springs Foundation for paralysis patients, mostly children, came Lawrence Sabyllia Camp. To the surprise of even his intimates, Franklin Roosevelt arose and introduced Mr. Camp as a "gentleman who I hope will be the next Senator from this State...
Bill Martin had not been conspicuous enough to irk the Old Guard, had simultaneously earned the warm regard of liberals by his solid good sense, extraordinary knowledge. Obvious choice for chairman of the new board, he soon became the obvious choice for president. At first it was planned to give this vital job to some high-powered bigwig. But as the new management completed the reorganization, it became apparent that no better symbol of the new day in Wall Street could be found than 31-year-old Bill Martin. Six weeks...