Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will send crate to pack Reader Funari back to Italy...
...York chums waged war. At a Manhattan County committee meeting of the party, a divisional director of Mr. Quill's union leaped to the platform, with a pack of Communist sympathizers, took over the proceedings. The lights flashed off, on, off again. Amid the hullabaloo the Quillsters voted down the anti-Communist resolution, yelled recriminations at those who objected, elected Leftist Congressman Vito Marcantonio chairman of their rump unit. Mr. Marcantonio declined, but he sideswiped the purgers as actors "playing the role of international statesmen. They should go back to ringing doorbells and climbing stairs...
...generally applied to it. If the iron ore of the Mesabi made it inevitable that there should be a vast steel industry in the U. S., the first glimpse of the Rockies, steel-blue and airy, made it inevitable that there would always be a U. S. market for pack saddles; and the first glimpse of the Yellowstone or the Shoshone bounding down the endless rapids insured the making of canoes. The Pursuit of Happiness that surges through American history as deeply as the protection of life and liberty, that remained alive even through the heartbreaking days of the Civil...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1909 introduced his epoch-making "war-against-poverty" budget. That was the budget that pitted the House of Commons against the House of Lords in a two-year struggle for power-a struggle which ended only after King George V, by threatening to pack the House of Lords with new peers, forced them to pass the Parliament Act which established the supremacy of Commons...
Jaakko, always deliberate and considerate, wants to use the meet to give the Freshman Harrlers a taste of competition, as well as giving the Varsity a limber up and appetizer. Though every Jaakko trained pack is out to win, there are explicit instructions not to strain for this meet, even if B. U. is far from being a pushover...