Word: relays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt and William Green ran an exciting relay race against a strike in the steel industry. The start was in Pittsburgh where the president of the American Federation of Labor went to try to persuade the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers to call off its strike plans. The finish was in Washington where President Roosevelt flashed across the Congressional adjournment deadline a winner with a new law to combat strikes in any industry. By the time Mr. Green reached the starting post Amalgamated was already in convention to vote the strike and nearby steel companies...
Bowditch, who prepared at Milton Academy, was President of his class during his Freshman year. He was also a member of the 1935 football squad, ran on the relay team and the track team, was a member of the Union committee, and he held the Milton Prize Scholarship. This spring he was elected secretary-treasurer of the Phillips Brooks House and was appointed head of the Junior Class Day Ushers...
...world's record for the 300-yard medley, will be the feature for the evening. M. Victor Leventritt '35 in the breaststroke, and George C. Scott, Jr. '34 in the 50-yard freestyle, mainstays of the Harvard team, hope to repeat the success they had against Yale. In the relay the All New England team will use Scott and Herbert M. Howe '34 to bolster their hopes...
...Freshman year he received his numerals as a member of the swimming team, and last year won a minor "H". Beside competing in the sprint this year, he was a member of the relay team which took many first places...
According to Coach Muir, the score of the meet will depend upon the outcome of the really event. The fastest time of the Eli relay men is three minutes and 53 seconds, while the best time yet turned in by Crimson is two seconds in excess of the Yale record. Rogers and Cooke for the Yale quartet consistently swim their lap of the relay in 55 seconds. The other two members of the team, Christner and Willcox, are minute men. Since the Crimson relay swimmers average about the same speed, it is exceedingly difficult to make any prophecy...