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Critics were unimpressed by the U. S. victory, 5-0, over third-rate Mexico at New Orleans. Gangling, nerveless Ellsworth Vines, U. S. national champion and leading candidate for phenomenon, was still short of his top form. He seemed absentminded, possibly because of his planned marriage in June to Verle Low of California. Texan Wilmer Allison, a plodder, showed a few moments of brilliant tennis. The supposedly invincible doubles team of Allison & John Van Ryn needed four sets to win. This team will play Australia next; then, if victorious, the winner of the European zone finals; then, possibly, France (July...
...rest aside, he plunged into six days of hard exciting work-the kind which makes a man glad to be President. For the first time he felt the exquisite sensation of a united nation behind him on a major issue. He became, almost overnight, a changed man, a nerveless machine driving at top speed, a kinetic force on world psychology...
...Shields of New York, 20, 6 ft., the most youthful contestants ever to play in the U. S. title singles finals. Lanky Shields was by far the more polished performer, his backhand often acing Doeg's serve, which had little threat for him, down the sidelines. But Doeg, nerveless at all times, continued to chop and drive, scoring well with his net and ground shots. The fourth set was the longest ever played in the final of a U. S. singles title match. Doeg won 16-14, bringing California her first singles championship since 1919 when small William Johnston...
...were members of the Turkish Parliament, among them General Ruchdi Pasha and former Minister of Interior Djambolet Bey. The remaining seven included men of lesser rank and two notorious assassins, Lazo Ismail and a man known simply as "Horsehide." He, bullnecked, nerveless, had snored through the preceding night. The others had not slept. All were to be executed in a few minutes for conspiracy to murder President Mustapha Kemal Pasha...
...which you gentlemen stand. Oh, other leaders will rise. These puny and little leaders who control now will not control always. I apologize. I had almost violated the rules and traditions of this House. . . . Other leaders will come hereafter and will take up the standards dropped from the nerveless dead hands of Bryan and Wilson and Roosevelt and LaFollette and Gompers. Other leaders will come and carry their standards, and when they do they will not be alone. There is a God who doeth all things well in this world in spite of what you gentlemen stand for. [Applause.] . . . This...