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...H.Y.P.D. meet, as it is called, is played round-robin fashion. With four men on each of four challenging groups, the individual players contest against each other until all colleges have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POWERFUL CHESS TEAM FACES INTERCOLLEGIATE MATCHES | 12/21/1932 | See Source »

...general manufacturers' sales tax such as now proposed by the President was rejected by the House decisively last spring, and blocked by a Senate round-robin. A $6 per bbl. tax on real beer, as advanced by the Wets for the present session, and as ignored by the President in his message, would produce approximately as much budget-balancing revenue as the loudly hated general sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Budget: 1934 | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...American Field Hockey team named last week after a three-day round-robin tournament of the best players in the U. S. at Greenwich. Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Field Hockey | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...That all European states sign a round-robin pact of non-aggression and of mutual armed assistance against a pact-breaking aggressor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Magnificent Innocence | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...Senate, opposition developed quickly. Led by Messrs. Couzens, La Follette and Connally, 45 Senators (35 Democrats, 20 Republicans) signed a round-robin to "vote against any and every form of a general Sales Tax in the pending bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Sales Tax Battle No. 2 | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

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