Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kelley carried that story up & down the U. S. as a challenge to greedy employers, used it to launch her national drive against Child Labor. Last week Florence Kelley's grave at Brooklin, Me. was more than a year old but in Washington her cause marched on to score its biggest triumph. Cotton textile manufacturers were appearing before Industrial Recovery Administrator Johnson to get their work & wages code approved. Labor was pounding them hard for proposing to pay their employes too little ($10-$11 per week), work them too long (40 hours per week). Even the President...
...Chicago, a regulation of the Illinois State Athletic Commission makes it obligatory to score prizefights by points, ten to a round. When Lightweight Champion Tony Canzoneri had finished defending his title last week against a sad faced young Hebrew named Barney Ross (Bernard Rossofsky) the referee gave both fighters 50 points. One of the judges gave Ross 52. Canzoneri 48. The other judge gave Ross 53, Canzoneri 47. That made Ross the new champion but the sweltering crowd in the Chicago Stadium, believing that to win a championship a man should do more than fight ten clever defensive rounds without...
...marbled halls of Herbert Hoover's monument, the new Department of Commerce Building, both phases of the Recovery Act are being administered. Last week movers were cluttering up its halls with furniture from the offices of the moribund R. F. C. Pert young clerks by the score were inking up rubber stamps and, like hungry buzzards, Congressmen had already scented out the headquarters of the government's newest and grandest handout...
Blanked for eight innings and held to two hits by the sterling pitching of Rogers, the Varsity nine rallied ineffectually in the ninth inning of the contest yesterday with Yale, only to go down to defeat for the second successive day at the hands of the Blue, by the score of 4-2. Displaying weaknesses in every department of the game, the Crimson aggregation was outclassed from the opening frame, as it had been last Tuesday, in the opening game of the Yale series, when the Eli players defeated their opponents, 5-3, and clinched second place in the Eastern...
...Fletcher, 2b. 4 1 0 4 4 0 Kimball, 1b. 4 0 1 11 0 0 Browne, c. 4 0 0 4 2 0 Rogers, p. 4 0 1 1 2 0 Parker, G., p. 0 0 0 0 0 1 Totals 40 4 8 27 14 1 Score by Innings: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Harvard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2--2 Yale...