Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Things started with a rush when Dr. Carl Joseph Melchior of Hamburg, partner of the German Warburgs, handed out a voluminous memorandum to show that no matter what happens after the Hoover Moratorium, Germany can never again pay Reparations under the stiff schedules laid down by the Young Plan. He had figures to show that the Albert Henry Wiggin Report of last August underestimated Germany's foreign debts by nearly a billion dollars. He admitted that Germany had at the present moment a favorable trade balance of about $83,000,000 a month, but it could not last. German exports...
...comparatively few who remain permanently paralyzed he recommended orthopedic surgery. A skilled surgeon can often correct sound muscles in such fashion that a wobbly joint becomes stiff and the limb useful. Often he can get some controlled motion back into a limb. Many a rehabilitated person moves his jaw with a muscle from his neck...
Harvard's hockey team will face stiff opposition tonight when the Crimson skaters play the University Club at the Boston Garden. Coach Stubbs has agreed to have the game played under the old amateur rules which bar offside passing despite the fact that Harvard will play most of its games this season under the professional code. The game is not official from the Harvard standpoint but has been arranged so that the University Club, Boston's Olympic aspirants, can try out various player combinations and improve its teamwork...
...doing it definitely handed control of the 72nd House of Representatives which meets this week for the first time, over to Democracy by a molecular majority. On that majority a stocky little Texan with fiery blue eyes and stubbly white hair pre pared to mount the rostrum to the stiff high-backed chair which holds the Speaker of the House and a power second only to that of the President. His name was John Nance Garner and for 28 years he had ably and shrewdly represented in Congress his State's 15th district, an area the size...
...total number of 35 men are at present working out on the basketball courts in the New Athletic Building under the watchful eyes of head coach E. A. Wachter, with the large number of aspirants being put through daily drills in preparation for the fairly stiff season that lies ahead...