Word: hackers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend of Hacker's. In fact, Hacker calls Vag "the Duke" for reasons which Vag will not go into now. He first heard of Hacker when their mutual tutor in their sophomore year wondered where that guy Wilson was. There was a rumor to the effect that he played football. He was a jolly easy-going fellow, and Vag, as he watched the games that fall, never could quite understand how he could change so suddenly into a ferocious blocker and tackler on the field. He knows now. Three years of watching Hacker in the blocking slot have shown...
...about whom enemy linemen have nightmares weeks before the Harvard. . . . There' little Nick, who had to wait for Russ and Chuck, and who seems to delight in his opponents' weight advantage. There's solemn Dave, who has the damndest luck with black eyes. There's colorful Tim, who like Hacker has found new joy in tackling. There's the steady Chief, with the barrel-house voice and the sure toe. There's Don and Win, a set of ends who have justified the confidence placed in them. There's Bob B., slim, reserved, quiet, who can carry the mail while...
...Lazard oil lands in Kern County, Calif. Banker Fleishhacker stoutly maintains that he was ill at the time and therefore had nothing to do with details of the sale except that he approved it. Asked on the stand if he had ever conspired to defraud Lazard Freres, Herbert Fleish-hacker declared: "Never in any manner, shape or form-everything I did for them was gratis and in their own interest...
Smoothest oration of the meeting came from stocky, aggressive Historian Louis Morton Hacker. Slickly observed he: "The Daughters of the American Revolution are the most dangerous enemies of the free schools in America. It is time these busybodies were told what their ancestors fought for. . . . Many of the members of the D. A. R. of today, had they been alive in 1776, would have been Tories. . . . The American Revolution of 1776 was a popular uprising of the workers, and the labor unions of today are the true inheritors of this tradition...
Said Mrs. Harper Sheppard, Regent of the Pennsylvania D. A. R.: "How ugly and uncivil! I have never heard of Mr. Hacker...