Word: matched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hello, Gene!" he beamed, greeting the one man who is a match for Huey Long in denouncing the New Deal and its leader - Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia. Democratic President and Governor clasped hands and began to chat amiably. Guardian angel of the peace parley was Clark Howell, who arranged it all when the President week-ended at Jefferson Islands in company with party bigwigs (TIME, July 22). In the comfortable air of the President's office Governor Talmadge sat down to explain just how terrible it was that the Government was holding up $19,000,000 of Federal...
...engineers. Saving State money is a hobby of his. Georgia had only $7,500,000 of debt when he took office in 1933 ; now it has less than $4,500,000. He has steadfastly refused to borrow money to match Federal appropriations for relief, has done his best to stop local governments from borrowing Federal money. He has not only insisted on pay-as-you-go finance but has lowered Georgia's property tax 20%, cut her automobile license fee to $3. On the issue of Georgia's Highway Department, Georgia's saving policy...
...given Sidney Wood's place as a singles player on the Davis Cup team. The importance of Budge to the U. S. Davis Cup campaign lies in the fact that Germany and England each have one singles player who can be counted on to win two matches. Last week, experts expected that Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm would defeat both Budge and Wilmer Allison, that Allison and John Van Ryn would win the doubles and that Allison would beat Germany's No. 2 player, Heiner Henkel. The outcome might therefore well depend on the first match...
...clear that she had not quite reached her oldtime form; how Helen Jacobs had finally been presented at court in a full-length white satin gown the week Wimbledon started (see cut); and how, finally, the two girls had played through to last week's final. Now, at match point, there seemed nothing left for the crowd to see except how Helen Jacobs would finally accept the victory for which she had waited so long, how Mrs. Moody, who had never had to do it before, would acknowledge defeat...
Then there happened the incredible incident which will be a nightmare for Helen Jacobs as long as she lives. She trotted up to smash the easy lob that seemed destined to end the match, hit the ball into the net. That made the score deuce. Mrs. Moody, suddenly reassured, ran out the game, the set, the match...