Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale game and will have charge of all details connected with that contest. He alone will get full numerals. Several other assistant managers are also appointed at the same time as the regular manager. Cuts will probably be held each week as soon as the competition gets into full swing. Assignments are to be changed daily during the first three weeks until candidates become thoroughly acquainted with their work...
...Roosevelt special will cost the party $20,000 for its 8,000-mi. trip. As a train it was not in a class with the 14-car special which carried the Brown Derby on its western swing in 1928 and set the party back $43,000. Left behind in charge of national headquarters was Louis Mc Henry Howe, the Governor's confidential secretary. Mrs. Roosevelt was to join her husband aboard the Pioneer at Williams, Ariz, where she would be visiting Mrs. John C. Greenaway, a bridesmaid at her wedding 27 years...
...Ellsworth Vines: "I found Ellsworth working in Kay's Bakery Shop in Pasadena. . . . He had a Western grip and a roundhouse swing, was about six feet tall and his feet wouldn't be friends with each other. But he had the heart and the willingness. . . . He was determined to hit hard . . . while I fretted over errors...
...putt on the 38th. Dutra, who had coasted through the tournament, played Walsh in the finals. In California, where he and his brother learned to play on an improvised course between two trees in a meadow, Dutra is known for his steadiness, his diligence on practice tees. His short swing is especially useful on windy days. There was a crisp wind blowing across the Keller course the Sunday of the final but it bothered Walsh as little as it did Dutra. They finished the morning round all even, with 71's. In the afternoon, Walsh went out in 35. Dutra...
...Franklin Fort, Chairman of the new Federal Home Loan Board, went the loudest ovation when he announced that national bank receivers had been ordered not to foreclose any more mortgages for 60 days until his relief organization could swing into action.* Later 20 State banking departments pledged themselves to carry out the same plan locally...