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These are probably two of the main defects with the present setup at Soldiers Field, and they go deep into the fundamentals of the game. For the ineffectiveness of the ground attack should not, as it might at first seem, be rung up solely against the men who carry the ball. More than half of the blame rests on the line's slowness and lack of power in charging and the guard's equal slowness in running interference. Even Jack Buckler of the Army wouldn't have been a world-beater last Saturday if his frontiersmen hadn't been opening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY GIVEN A CHANCE FOR REST AFTER HARD GRIND | 11/13/1934 | See Source »

...Fascist Italy's ladder of military organizations for males from 8 to 21, Benito Mussolini last week added a bottom rung for moppets between 6 and 8. Estimated enrollment: 1,500,000. Name: "Sons of the Wolf.'' The mythical founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, were sons of War God Mars. They were suckled by a kindly she-wolf and fed by a woodpecker. Mussolini plans no "Sons of the Woodpecker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Sons of the Wolf | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

There was little China could do last week, but that little she did. Finance Minister H. H. Rung sent a protest against the U. S. silver policy to the state department in Washington. Timed to accompany the protest went several unofficial threats. Unless the U. S. stopped deflating China's currency, she might be forced to switch from silver to gold. She could do this because the Central Bank of China has shipped no gold since August, has built up heavy reserve stocks, could increase these stocks by declaring an embargo on silver and selling silver through the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Silver Protest | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...nursery was of careful, home-made construction, and a New York City toxicologist, examining ransom money as it came in, found emery dust and glycerine esters. Hence the man was likely to be a carpenter or machinist who ground his own tools. Judging from the ladder's broken rung, the man's weight was put at somewhere near 160 lb. From vague descriptions given by a taxi-driver who had taken the third ransom note to "Jafsie" Condon and from Condon's own recollections of the intermediary "Johns," a Washington cartoonist was able to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 4U-13-41 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...charged with the health & happiness of some 2,000,000 souls, began to dicker with huge Electric Bond & Share, top-rung owner of Tennessee Public Service. T. V. A. wanted to buy certain properties of the private utility, then sell them on easy terms to Knoxville and neighboring communities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Choice at Knoxville | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

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