Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...track situation looks pretty hopeless for the Crimson with the Yale meet coming up on Saturday. If Eddie Casey was pulling his punches against the Green, there is still chance for a decisive win, but an optimistic guess at the score, on the basis of the Dartmouth meet, would give the Kli a good five point advantage...
...safe guess that his Cabinet, like all French Cabinets before it, is in a bad way, and that before long there will be more hair-tearing and grinding of molars in the Chambers. The support given to an emergency Cabinet, and the prestige of its veteran, good-natured leader, can only stave off for a time the woes to which France's parliamentary system dooms her. The wide acclaim of Doumergue's accession has nothing to do with the case, for he is wedded to a Cabinet system with a caricature of responsibility. Only the President, with senatorial approval...
...left, but at the right, is Actor Sidney Blackmer. Most likely guess as to identity of the person misnamed Blackmer: Cinemactor George Meeker...
Outlay- First complete guess at the cost of the New Deal was Franklin Roosevelt's Budget message to Congress (TIME, Jan. 15). He estimated that the Government would spend $10,569,000,000 in fiscal 1934 of which $7,523,000,000 was for emergency expenses exclusive of subsidies to cut farm production. Last week it became apparent that the Administration had not been able to toss out dollars as fast as it had planned. With nine months of the fiscal year past, it had spent a total of $4,848,000,000-only about $4 for every...
...well-filled bar testified to the popularity of Mr. Sharkey's Tavern. When asked what drink seemed to satisfy the taste of his patrons most regularly, he answered, "Well, I guess Ward 8 sells about as much as any other. Whiskey goes pretty well too, and most of the customers that come as far as Canal Street can take it straight. Of course, during the day, most of the boys have to go easy and we find that the usual standby is beer." Contrary to popular belief, the Sharkey Special punch is not named after this famous pugilist...