Word: switch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after he became majority leader of the Senate in 1937, Alben Barkley fell asleep at the political switch. He allowed the antilynching bill to be brought up for discussion and got his party in a jam in the closing hours of the session. Last week he nodded again-with less serious consequences...
...least for the present, as Capt. Foshay of the Tigers gained a decision over Captain Harvey Ross of the Crimson team in the overtime. Ross seemed in have the advantage for the first part of the match, but Foshay kept escaping from Ross with a smoothly working reverse switch. Finally in the overtime of what seemed to be an impossible bout to decide, Foshay received the nod from the referee an the wrestler who showed the greatest aggressiveness...
...backfield averages about 170 pounds, about the same as the line. In the blocking back post is Roy Moore, a speedy and effective interferer for Jack McClure, tailback, on the latter's off-tackle smashes. The two occasionally switch positions as in the last Winthrop game...
...operated too similarly to the real railroads to be a toy. Its very complexity and completeness makes it exciting and real to those men. There service and ability have their reward: the hardest worker is the head man, and a Boston and Albany switch engine hostler may "run" the M. M. R. R.'s crack express if he shows "the stuff...
Since the switch of Joseph E. Davies from Moscow to Brussels last June, the post of U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union has not been filled. Last week it appeared that the Soviet post of Ambassador to Washington would soon be vacated also, leaving both the U. S. and the Soviet Union without full diplomatic representation in each other's capitals. On leave in Moscow, able Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, the Soviet Union's first Ambassador to the U. S., disclosed that he has requested a post nearer to Moscow, possibly one in the Soviet Union itself...