Word: setups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of rejuvenated play last Saturday it looks right now that the Mitchell hands will do well to take two out of three over the weekend and split even with both Yale and Dartmouth. With such a setup Dartmouth is definitely favored to grab the flag while Yale and Harvard are a tossup for second. LEAGUE BASEBALL STANDINGS Dartmouth 7 1 875 Harvard 4 1 800 Yale 6 2 750 Penn 4 5 444 Columbia 4 6 400 Princeton 3 5 375 Cornell...
Political observers reacted as sportsmen would if Yale's football coach, having reduced Harvard to the status of an early-season setup, should publicly advise the Crimson how to come back. Depending on how they assayed his advice, readers guessed: that Pressagent Michelson was having some sly fun with his old enemies, that the wrinkled old battler genuinely longed to match his wits once more with a worthy opponent, or that "Charley the Mike," with Michiavellian cunning, was deliberately attempting to steer the tottering Elephant over a precipice...
Though 5,000.000 French workers, benefiting from cultured, straggle-haired Socialist Premier Blum's new social laws, are enjoying a 40-hour working week, there was plenty of discontent in France last week. Hotel, restaurant and cafe workers, still waiting to be included in the 40-hour setup, staged a noisy demonstration to protest against employers who refuse to grant shorter working hours during the impending tourist season. To appease them the French Government had already been obliged to abolish the Droit de Tab-lier ("Right of the Apron"), the "privilege" of waiters, hat-checkers, washroom attendants, doorkeepers...
...Cabinet of Professor van Zeeland is supported by a necessarily loose coalition of Catholics, Liberals, Socialists and Communists. It is typical of the setup of Democracy against which dictators rail, scoffing that efficiency is impossible if the head of the state has to spend most of his time conciliating the views of supporters so diverse. Challenged by Degrelle and his Rexist Party, however, the Cabinet parties pulled themselves together, urged Professor van Zeeland, who had never run for an elective office, to do so as a personal challenge to Demagog Degrelle. They assured the Premier he would be elected...
...stories. Hearst's New York American "learned exclusively" that California Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini's Transamerica Corp., through Bancamerica-Blair Corp., had been negotiating for Midamerica's 2,064,000 shares of Alleghany Corp. common stock which it holds in the complex Van Sweringen corporate setup. But old Mr. Giannini denied this...