Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reach a Wimbledon final since the War, "He was very, very much too good for me." "He" was Frederick John Perry, ablest British tennist since the Doherty brothers, who, playing far better than a year ago, had won the Men's Singles Championship for the second year in a row by beating von Cramm in the final, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. The round before, Perry had beaten Australia's Jack Crawford, Wimbledon champion in 1933, and von Cramm had beaten redhaired Donald Budge of California who, in his first appearance at Wimbledon, had done so well that...
...bout was the 50th in a row which 220-lb., 22-year-old Danno Aloysius O'Mahoney has won since he arrived in the U. S. last December. A soldier in the Irish Free State Army, he was discovered in Dublin by a Boston entrepreneur, came here on furlough. Before Danno O'Mahoney has an undisputed claim to the title, he must defeat Ed Don George, still recognized as Champion in Canada and several states...
...Does the Senator from Louisiana realize that those of us who are new Members of the Senate, and who for the last six months have sat back here in the last row and seen every effort on the part of the Congress to do something for the people of this country who are suffering from unemployment blocked and stifled by the Senator from Louisiana, are going to sit in the Senate tonight and tomorrow and all this week and from now on until something is done to stop the Senator from Louisiana from controlling the Senate? I submit that question...
...Long, badly frazzled, was ready to quit. Democratic oldsters of the Senate were also ready to trade him permission to march out with the honors of the filibuster if he would agree to a vote next day on the NRA resolution. When Senator Harrison went back to the rear-row neophytes and whispered the leadership's scheme, there was a determined shaking of heads. "Hell.no! We're going to stay here until Long drops in his tracks." An hour passed and Senator Schwellenbach asked another question...
...rest, he asked permission to have the clerk read the Democratic platform, the Lord's Prayer. Like a cheering section, the rear-row Democrats chanted "I object." And the Kingfish had to go along on his own lungs: "I do not like to take up 15 hours' time with the galleries getting empty and nobody to listen to me. The floor is getting thin; very few Senators are here, and I hate to speak to a small crowd like this...