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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conditioning classes at indoor Athletic Building 11:15, 12:15, 5:00, Coaches Fradd, Harper, Cox and Parker; Crow at Nowell Boat House from 2:00 to 5:00, Coaches Bolles, Haines, and Love; Cross Country at Dillon Field House, 1:00 to 5:30, Coach Mikkoia...
...Forest Hills, L.I., in the final of the National Singles Tennis Championship, the crowd favorite was Frank Parker, who usually annoys the gallery with his stony-faced skill and mechanical shots. He won the gallery's fancy by unexpectedly copping the first two sets from Champion Jake Kramer, whose play was incredibly sloppy. Then King Jake got down to business, and with a fine series of service aces, drop-shots and volleys managed to keep his crown, so that he can profitably quit it (he is about to turn pro). The score...
...Parker then got Janesville's merchants to agree to accept each peso at a fixed value of 20? (current exchange: 4.83 to the dollar), got the banks to agree to take them from the merchants at the same rate...
Since 250,000 pesos would circulate in Janesville, Parker figured that every man, woman & child would have some pass through his hands...
...Parker warned his fellow townsmen that U.S. exports are 2½ times greater than imports, that the rest of the world is running short of dollars with which to buy U.S. goods, that this "may well cause a serious recession in the U.S. economy." He hoped that his "Peso Pay-Off Day" would impress upon Janesville that "your Congressmen and Senators can go a long way toward averting this danger by reducing [import] barriers...