Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began in January when George Magoffin Humphrey, as one of his top aides said later, "tossed a match into the barn and sure started a fire." Treasury Secretary Humphrey's warning that high Government spending would in the long run bring on a depression "that will curl your hair" caused hair to stand on end all over the U.S. Editorial writers cried of "idiot spending," and budget figures rolled sonorously across Chamber of Commerce luncheon tables from coast to coast. Congressional mail pouches swelled; New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives totted up 2,155 budget-cutting letters...
...last week the fire in the barn had even singed the man who threw the match. To the chairman of a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee came a letter urging the Senate to restore $8,205,000 (to replace overage Coast Guard aircraft) that the House of Representatives had whittled from the Treasury Department's budget. The pleader: Treasury Secretary Humphrey himself...
...Crimson will play its first hard Eastern Rugby League match of the season this afternoon when it meets the New York Club on the House Football Field at 3:45 p.m. The same clubs will field second teams for a 2:30 p.m. curtain-raiser...
...Damis one more, and they were joined in the scoring column by Joe Conzelman, Tom Fritz, and Ron Eikenberry. Scrum-half Alan Waddell played his usual outstanding game, and the forwards kept control of the ball for the Crimson for almost the whole match...
...Intercollegiate Cup match, Darmouth won by the smallest possible margin, but it was definitely the better side. This time it was the Crimson's turn to play a defensive game...