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...Secretary finds the crop exceeding the "norm" by 10%, he must assign marketing quotas (and penalties) to prevent market flooding, call a vote asking for ⅓ approval by farmers thus quotaed. Such umpiring on Wallace's part would put him in the usual umpire's spot. Last year Wallace slid out of calling a vote by estimating consumption and exports high enough to make the supply seem reasonable...
...Leonova." There is Deputy Bach, 82, exiled in 1878, whose record begins, "A. N. Bach has lived a long and beautiful life." There is Alexander Bussy-gin, 32, who was so electrified during the Stakhanov movement that he forged 1,001 crankshafts in one shift (675 was the norm), 1,005 the next, 1,015 the third...
...snort at the present and sigh for the good old days in characteristics of track fans as well as the G. O. P. Bill Bingham, Penn Hallowell, Jack Seborer, Emile Dubiel, Milt Green, Norm Cabbera--these have become legendary figures in the annals of Harvard track. And there is no doubt that spectator interest in Crimson track teams has declined since the days when hundreds of athletes and thousands of fans annually poured into the Stadium to witness the country's college cinder classic--the I. C. 4-A meet...
Although crushing Tufts, Stevens Tech, and M. I. T., the Stahleymen were utterly disrupted by the offensive tactic shown by Dartmouth. The expert passing and stick-handling of the Green players were too much for the defence, which was considerably weakened by the shifting of aggressive Norm Blotner from first defense to a midfield position. As a result of the Tuft and the Dartmouth matches, two of Skip Stanley's most reliable attack men, Sophomore Dong Anderson and Captain Phil Hammond, are on the sick list, and until they return, the team's scoring abilities are dangerously reduced...
...backbone of the team is its formidable aggregation of Juniors, among whom Norm Blotner, Ed Childs, Jim Doughty, Phil Downes, Ben Ferris, Gordon Halstead, Dick Lewis, Ben Wilcox, and Jess Willard have been valuable. Willard and Doughty have been serving quite consistently as counters, while Lewis, Ferris, and Halstead have been consistently playing in the first string. Childs, Downes, and Halstead have been consistently playing in the first string. Childs, Downes, and Wilcox have seen action as substitutes and may well be the skeleton of next year's ton. Of the Seniors, Ralph Livingston and Hammond have been the mainstays...