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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CHARLES N. HUSTON Williamsport...
...troubles over the oil expropriations and the resulting business collapse made this threat a likely possibility. So the President two months ago made an attempt to get General Cedillo away from his stronghold. He ordered the General to take over command of the military zone in Michoacán, Cárdenas' home state. General Cedillo, pleading illness, asked for a 45-day respite. Last week, his leave expired, the old General sent in his resignation from the army, announced that he would stay in Potosí, "quietly dedicated to agriculture...
...Wolf Hopper died three years ago and it was about that time that a wizened little septuagenarian from Silver Springs, Md. walked into a Washington newspaper office and presented himself as the original Casey. Dan Casey had been saying it for 50 years in his native Binghamton, N. Y., where he had worked as a trolley-car conductor since retiring from baseball, but no one had paid much attention. In Washington, however, it was different...
...Yale's undefeated varsity crew: the Carnegie Cup regatta; for the 11th year; leading all the way and finishing two lengths ahead of Cornell and six ahead of Princeton; in 10 min. 23.4 sec., the fastest two miles ever rowed on famed Lake Cayuga; at Ithaca, N. Y. Best previous time was 10:32 made by a Cornell crew...
...Heptagonal meet (with Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, Penn), climax of the Ivy League season; scoring in 13 of the 15 events and winning four (half-mile, 440-yd. relay, broad jump, hammer throw) ; for a total of 59¼ points; before a crowd of 10,000; at Princeton, N. J. Cornell was second, Columbia third...