Word: rounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's Secretary of Commerce announced that U. S. national income might reach 70 billions this year, that he meant everything he said at Des Moines (TIME, March 6), that "Johnny Hanes and I have a substantial meeting of minds." Word even went round that arch-New Dealers suspected Harry Hopkins of selling out Reform in his eagerness for Recovery...
...Donald Budge's number was British Fred Perry. That was in 1934-36, when Budge was just out of the juniors and Perry was the world's No. 1 Amateur. Perry took the redhead over in the Pacific Coast final in '34, the Davis Cup challenge round in '35, at Wimbledon and Forest Hills in '36. Budge beat Perry just twice, in unimportant matches. Then Perry turned professional and Budge went on to unparalleled tennis fame. Last year, for a guaranteed $75,000, Budge joined the pros...
...snow train will make a round trip to Plymouth, New Hampshire tomorrow, leaving Boston's North Station at 8.15 o'clock in the morning, and returning from Plymouth at 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon at a special $2.50 rate...
...better . . . For drumming with all of Krupa's speed and flash but with taste and drive, listen to Cozy Cole on Callaway's "Ratamacue" (Vocalion) . . . Not swing, but still very funny is the Commodore release of "Private Jives," a parody on Noel Coward's "Private Lives" . . . Word also slips 'round that Vocalion has succumbed to the album craze, turning out a collection of old Fletcher Henderson platters...
Sixteen men were selected from the thirty entrants in the Lee Wade and Boylston speaking competition to enter the semi-final round. The preliminaries were held in Paine Music Hall at four o'clock yesterday afternoon...