Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another really encouraging feature of the game was Harvard's punting, so lacking in recent years. Both Austie Harding and Frank Foley contributed towering spirals to give the team a 41-yard punt average from the line of scrimmage...
Sirs: TIME's recent essay-of-the-week on Assistant Secretary of War Johnson contained a reference to the army's sinister "White Paper" relating to the suppression of civil insurrection in this country. Just a fortnight later TIME notes the relation of the transfer of air force headquarters into the Chicago area to "White Paper" detail...
Sirs: In several recent issues you have given accounts of people struck by lightning on the golf course or other places in the open [TIME, Aug. 15, 22]. Are there records of automobiles ever having been struck by lightning, and does the movement of the car affect its chances of being hit? What danger would there be to the occupants? I think the answer to this question might be of general interest...
...Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed'') Smith took a long time to make up his mind whether he was proud or ashamed of the fact that, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, he brought the second AAA to the Senate floor this year. In his recent campaign he sometimes blamed the bill on the New Deal, sometimes claimed credit for it. Last week, with cotton prices tumbling under a bumper August carryover of 13,400,000 bales and no increased AAA relief in sight, Cotton Ed set his weather-vane for good...
...army flier since 1911, assistant chief of his corps since 1936, lively General Arnold succeeds the late Major General Oscar Westover, who crashed last fortnight (TIME. Oct. 3). Air corps officers esteem Henry Arnold for administrative spunk, his recent efforts to take the kinks out of procurement, his help in developing the substratosphere plane which won the 1938 Collier Trophy (TIME, Sept. 26). To get to Henry Arnold, Malin Craig passed over eleven senior air corps officers. Shortly before this selection was announced. Chicago Daily Newsman Paul R. Leach reported another result of Oscar Westover's death...