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Died. James Cannon Jr., 79, longtime Southern Methodist bishop, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, head of the World League against Alcoholism; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago. An implacable crusader, the bishop waged a lifetime campaign against "Rome and rum." For a decade, Southern politicians trembled at his disapproval. His 1928 denunciations of Al Smith helped to turn the Solid South toward Herbert Hoover. When his own church accused him of dabbling in Wall Street bucket shops, he wept publicly and pleaded for Christian forgiveness. The church forgave him but his fame began to fade. His first wife, mother of his nine children...
...players in the armed services last week as it will have in play this season-400. The American League had 203 service stars, the National 197. There had been only one death. Rookie Eugene Stack, slated for a tryout with Chicago's White Sox, was the first major leaguer drafted-Jan. 7, 1941. Two years ago he died of a heart attack after pitching a game for Fort Custer, Mich...
...little piece of all that he had expected Harvard to be. Now the need for a new paint job was even greater, but Vag still thought of the Sanctum that way. It was home to him, far more than D-21 had ever been. He thought of the Ivy Leaguer's ode to upstairs and he was still. That should not be imitated, should remain the final tribute of the crimed to the Sanctum...
Much of the work of the alphabetical agencies has been, to Beard, a species of "economic thimblerigging." But to Dr. Smyth, who was a Liberty Leaguer in 1936, Beard insists that the New Deal has stayed pretty well within the bounds of constitutionalism. The Founding Fathers, says Beard, did not believe in the doctrines of economic laissez faire that are usually attributed to Adam Smith. They were, as a matter of fact, 18th-Century "mercantilists" in their primary economic assumptions. Their "mercantilism" implied a belief in Federal interference with economic matters and they expressly gave Congress the power to "regulate...
There the Yanks had what some sportswriters called the pitcher-of-the-year, a tall, broad-shouldered right-hander named Spud Chandler, who retired 14 men in a row against Detroit. First American Leaguer to win 20 games this year, he had an earned-run average of 1.69, the league's lowest since Walter Johnson...