Word: pullings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White remarks in his letter that the Committee was surprised at the size of the schools as proven by the poll run at that time but he adds, "from one point of view we had to pull our punches to get anyone to believe...
...Sing Sing, a man of no mean financial daring, took over as chairman of the Bond Sales Committee, set out to sell $27,829,500 in 4% fair debentures. But by February 1937 only $20,000,000 of the bonds had been sold and Grover Whalen had to pull a high-pressure stunt out of his black fedora. With the greatest of ease Maestro Whalen invented the Terrace Club, purportedly swank dining & wining place on the fair grounds, with a membership restricted to those who would subscribe to $5,000 of fair bonds. Even so, banks had to absorb...
After a long lay off action will be resumed in House athletics tomorrow along three fronts as eight entries turn down the home stretch in the Straus Trophy race. Both baseball leagues, hardball and softball, and tennis pull up the curtain on their spring schedules...
...Adolf Hitler seized Czecho-Slovakia because he thought the country's riches would pull him out of an economic hole, he is very likely to find himself as mistaken as when he took Austria and the Sudetenland. They have both proved to be liabilities...
...officers without a hearing and called a reorganization convention in St. Louis this week. On Donald Henderson's behalf, a C. I. 0. spokesman replied that he had simply tried to bring order into a maladministered union, that Messrs. Butler & Mitchell fooled themselves in thinking they could pull out of Ucápawa and stay in C. I. O., as they hope...