Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tommy Davis, the crimson helmeted team's captain, will swap positions at number 2 with Al Dillingham, who formerly played at back. The new No. 2, endowed with greater weight, is expected to prove himself worthy of the position so long wall filled by his captain...
While the nation was dividing itself into clangorous groups of hard and soft money men last week, frantically trading theory for theory as prizefighters swap punches, a plainspoken, uncompromising young Arizonan who parts his hair in the middle and knows more about Government income & outgo than anyone else, arrived in Boston to speak a few hard facts. He was Director of the Budget Lewis Williams Douglas, addressing the annual conference of the New England Council (industrialists, businessmen). As a spokesman, he had come neither to praise the Administration's fiscal policies nor to bury any illusions about them...
...grinning little Joseph Vincent McKee was the idol, the White Hope of thousands of New Yorkers who mortally hate & fear the yoke of Tammany. He had striven for municipal economies. Although he prided himself on his Democratic regularity, in Board of Estimate meetings he did not seem afraid to swap punches with Tammany. When bumbling John Patrick O'Brien was propped up in the special Mayoral election last November by Tammany, many a citizen was puzzled at Mr. McKee's unwillingness to run against him. Spurred chiefly by the militant World-Telegram, 262,000 voters wrote McKee...
...Cincinnati Enquirer's "Swap" column appeared this advertisement: ''Have complete course, 'How to become a success,' will swap for room rent...
There were good things in the bag for Hungary, too. After the signing of an Austro-Hungarian agreement to swap Hungarian wheat for Austrian wood, Italy announced that she too would buy her surplus wheat from Hungary. Repeated rumors came from Paris and London that France and Britain were also about to reward the little Chancellor by lifting quota restrictions against Austrian goods. The beginnings of world recovery allowed the Vienna Chamber of Commerce to announce last week that Austria's foreign trade, though still far from healthy, was definitely better...