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Tigers. Scared by the size of Yawkey's purse, the Tigers' manager, Mickey Cochrane, wangled Outfielder Al Simmons away from the Chicago White Sox for $75,000. Almost certain to earn the cellar position are 73-year-old Manager Mack's hapless Athletics. Of the regular team which won him the World Series in 1929, he has now sold the last member, must, as in 1923, completely rebuild...
Meanwhile hapless Ethiopia last week had made friends out of Yugoslavia and Italy, traditional foes. Needing grain to feed the Italian troops now embarking for Africa, Premier Benito Mussolini is placing huge grain orders in Yugoslavia. At the port and frontier city of Susak, where Italian and Yugoslav guards with fixed bayonets have glared at each other for years across barbed wire entanglements, suddenly last week Yugoslavian wheat began to pour in a golden tide onto Italian ships, paid for with Il Duce's pegged-to-gold lire...
Pool Unplugged, Like Herbert Hoover's hapless Federal Farm Board, the Dominion Pool was created to solve a problem that looked simple, on paper. Since Canada produces about 400,000,000 bu. of wheat annually and consumes only 110,000,000 bu., all the pool had to do was to buy surplus wheat from Dominion farmers and, after a little good-humored waiting, sell it abroad at its own price. Trouble was that Canada does not control the wheat export market single handed. While the pool sat on its wheat waiting for the right price, European bread-eaters bought their...
...going indefinitely. They may have to turn their hunting also after that rara avis, the collegian who is neither Communist nor Fascist, and their hunt so directed may possibly meet with a greater aboundance of foxes, although it is difficult to foresee just how they will malign that particular hapless species. --Daily Princetonian...
Freshman Coach Bert Haines retrieved the sinking craft with the Leviathan--the hapless mariners carried their oars home on foot...