Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reorganization of the Bureau. Assistant Directors Cone and Martin lost their titles, were "sent to Siberia"-Martin to "study airline operation" in South America, Cone in Europe. Made assistant director was famed Major Rudolph William ("Shorty") Schroeder, one of the few Bureau men whom everybody admires. Made director with sole authority was Dr. Fred Dow Fagg Jr., 40, head of the Air Law Institute of Northwestern University. A Wartime flyer, Fred Fagg has been the Bureau's legal expert for four years, has been on the payroll since last summer revising airline regulations. His salary: $8,000. Gene Vidal...
...peak when the five faces Columbia and Yale in their last two league clashes. They will not be fighting for first place, for the great Pennsylvania team has cinched that; but if they can weather these two games they will be in a second place tie, or perhaps sole possessor of that runner-up berth. This is in itself a truly remarkable record, for Wes Fesler had no naturally gifted basketball players. They have literally made that team good out of mediocre material...
...Central Alaska last week came an exciting story. The Black Rapids Glacier, long dying in its valley 125 miles south of Fairbanks, had come to life. Its mile-and-a-quarter face was shoving toward the Delta River and the Richardson Highway (sole motor road from Fairbanks to the coast), rearing ice crests to 500 ft., breaking off great land icebergs which tumbled thunderously ahead onto the mossy valley floor...
...Mohammedan theory that "all are equal before Allah in prayer," the World's Richest Man prostrated himself with his subjects at the Great Mosque and everyone prayed. Poems were recited and the venerable Hindu Premier read an address hailing his Mohammedan Monarch as "today the sole relic of Mogul greatness in India...
...anyone thinks that John L. Lewis took a licking from General Motors when he had to back down on his "sole bargaining" demand, let him look about in Harvard College. For the strength, ambition, and prestige of the C.I.O. have jumped so high in the labor world since the automotive baiting that even undergraduate sympathizers are signing up for work with the union leaders. Indeed, the labor committee of the Harvard Student Union, after surveying conditions in a number of Cambridge factories last fall, is taking up the more practical task of direct canvassing on behalf of the C.I.O...