Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Harlow emphasized, however, that the shift may be only temporary, if Macdonald and the other backs improve defensively. In any case, Harlow has shown by the change that be considers big Big Smith and Mike Cohenable to handle the bucking position alone...
Captain Bob Green and right tackle Ken Booth, the two most reliable performers game in and game out, were again top-notchers for the total forces. Green's most spectacular play occurred in the second canto, when he and bucker Mike Cohen caught the fleet Brud Holland from behind after a goodly Ithacan gain on an end-around play. Booth was the outstanding blocked on the field...
...administered an oath of office to a short but not swart, buck-toothed Spaniard. Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Commonwealth, had picked last spring this new man to be Philippine Resident Commissioner at Washington, succeeding banjo-eyed Politician Quintin Paredes. The new man's name, Joaquin Miguel ("Mike") Elizalde, is virtually the Philippine equivalent of Harold S. ("Mike") Vanderbilt...
...Elizaldes are the islands' richest Spanish family. Commissioner "Mike," though born in Manila (1896), was schooled in Spain, served in the Spanish Army, still wears a military haircut. Five years ago he became a Philippine citizen to protect the family business, Elizalde & Co. Inc., a 10,000,000-peso corporation engaged in the hemp, sugar, coconuts, lumber, mining, ranching, shipping, distilling, insurance, etc. business. To President Quezon (whom "Mike" Elizalde calls "one of the greatest men in the world"), his country's future problems seem more economic than political. So whom better could he have in Washington than...
More striking, however, than the economic talents, are the extracurricular talents "Mike" Elizalde will bring to the job of Resident Commissioner, which fun-loving Manuel Quezon plans to take over himself when his presidential term ends in 1941. A millionaire sportsman, Seňor Elizalde can play as well as trade with U.S. tycoons. With his brothers, Juan, Angel and Manolo-one of whom married a Spreckels of San Francisco-he used to have a polo team, rated at 19 goals, which won the Far Eastern title.* Besides enjoying the right to speak (but not vote) in Congress...