Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slate clean and start afresh within one year. In the autumn, President Roosevelt appointed a temporary commission of two superannuated admirals and a man from the Treasury Department, but not immediately could he get the man he really wanted to do the job. After his brilliant performance launching SEC, a lot of people with big business headaches wanted Joseph Patrick Kennedy to be their Mr. Fixit. Paramount Pictures, Inc. paid him $50,000 for a drastic survey report. William Randolph Hearst got him to look over his jumbled publishing empire (see p. 26). Not until this spring did Franklin Roosevelt...
...necessitated by the fact that not even William Randolph Hearst can carry losing properties indefinitely and that he, though hale at 74, is getting no younger. His plans to mortgage a big portion of his properties to the public for $35,500,000 cash remained stalled in SEC last week and pending their approval, by a none-too-friendly Administration, Mr. Hearst's feelings must have continued akin to those of Hearst employes who still waited to see the full extent of the great retrenchment. Reassuring to the staff of his Chicago Herald & Examiner last week was a statement...
...freshman race Washington led from the start, won without raising one-half beat until the last half-mile. The Washington junior varsity finished first, cutting the three-mile course record by 34 sec. In the varsity race Washington entered the same eight stalwarts-with a new coxswain-who triumphed at Poughkeepsie in 1936 and went on to take the Olympic sprint title. This time the Huskies got away late as Navy skimmed out to lead for the first mile and a half. Washington upped its stroke gradually, nosed ahead at two miles, easily won by four lengths in record-breaking...
...length, was gaining at 30 strokes to the minute. At the three-mile mark Yale frantically went to 34, then to 36, but Tom Bolles's first Crimson crew, ably stroked by Jim Chace, plowed impressively on to victory and a new course record of 20 min. 2 sec. for the four miles upstream...
...arrived 1 min. 10 sec. after the beginning of the eighth round. As Braddock took a wobbling step forward, Louis planted a right on the point of the champion's sagging jaw. The peculiar, wet-sounding detonation of what experts considered one of the hardest punches ever delivered in a prize ring told spectators on the rim of the park exactly what had happened. While Louis stood in a neutral corner, not bothering to look back. Referee Tommy Thomas counted ten over the unconscious ex-champion...