Word: slates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Washington), assured of playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. In the Western Conference (Big Ten), Minnesota was champion with five victories and no ties or defeats but, having been beaten twice by non-conference opponents (Nebraska and Notre Dame) its season's slate was far from clean. In the Big Six, Nebraska just nosed out Oklahoma for top ranking. Two other conference champions were crowned last week in notable games...
...publishers frantically pursuing manuscripts can discover 10,000 books worth printing in one year. . . ." In bringing out books they know they cannot sell profitably, publishers have likened their dilemma to that of a man shoveling on a dying fire coal that he knows contains a lot of slate. If he stops shoveling, the fire will go out; if he keeps on, the slate may smother it. Only one book in ten sells 20,000 copies, only six novels in ten sell 2,500 copies, and publishers lose money on novels that sell less than 2,500. Consequently when publishers...
Captain Johnny Harkness, most powerfully built matman, kept his slate clean until he was crushed by Ross Shaffer of Penn State in February. Inventive, a dynamic grappler he has the best chance of al to chalk up an undefeated record. In the 165-1b. class Bill Daughaday, a Sophomore with an excellent Freshman record, is fighting it out with Albert Harkness '38, the captain's brother. With plenty of rough edges to smooth out, Daughaday, one of the two Yardling victors at New Haven, will probably win the position...
First string in the 126-1b. class, Louis Ach has decided to come down one step to vie with Harvey Ross for the 118-1b. place. Ross, former Milten captain and a Junior this year, kept a clean slate in '36, had a medloore record on the Varsity. To boost the 126-1b. class Johnson may have Ach go back to his old position...
...Republican in 1905, a Wilson Democrat in 1912 and 1916, a Republican officeholder in 1927, a successful candidate for Democratic city controller in 1933 and for Republican mayor in 1935, Philadelphia's boisterous Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was last week plunking his oratorical hardest for the Democratic slate in a city election for four job-dispensing offices-controller, treasurer, coroner, register of wills -for all of which the Democrats were conceded a better-than-even chance. Mayor Wilson had most fun with two rich but politically unsophisticated socialites who undertook to revive Philadelphia's Republican organization-City Chairman...