Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their crack shortstop, "Arky" (from Arkansas) Vaughan, last week made his 19th homerun and was leading the National League in batting with an average of .400. September's schedule does not favor the Giants, but they will end their season with five games against the tail-end Boston Braves, while the Cubs and Cardinals play each other. Nonetheless, in St. Louis last week, Cardinals' executives announced that they were ready to sell seats for the World Series...
...lobbies Nazi jurists seemed confident that, with President Roosevelt and his New Dealers twisting the tail of old-time constitutional Justice, the U. S. delegates in Berlin would be the first to sympathize with rough & ready Nazi methods. They noted, for example, that U. S. citizens who committed no crime when they bought gold have since been made liable to punishment for holding on to their purchases. Taking the rostrum last week, German Minister of Justice Franz Giirtner announced that after Sept. 1 the punishment of "wrong acts" which were not crimes when they were commit ted will...
...Cleveland Indians who, picked by most experts to win the pennant, were floundering in fourth place. Said he: "Trosky has been a terrible disappointment. So has Hale. But I think my greatest agony is Pearson. . . ." The Chicago White Sox, aided by Pitchers Whitehead and Phelps, picked as tail-enders, were still in third place last week, with a good chance to stay there...
...year-old, Japanese-made Ning Hai. Smaller, theoretically slower and equipped with only 5.5-in. guns, the Ning Hai is nevertheless in fighting trim and none of its guns is in pawn. It straightway opened fire on the Hai Shen and Hai Chi. The two old baggages heavily turned tail, labored back into Hongkong Harbor. Soon after, Ning Hai put in too, and its officers variously explained that the shots had been a warning, a salute, a welcome and that there had been no shots. Everybody agreed, however, that the Nanking navy was ready to welcome the Hai Shen...
...colleagues will never live to see the day that you can saddle our depositors and stockholders with the unlimited contingent liability incorporated in the permanent Federal Deposit Insurance Act. ... I wouldn't trust a single one of you any farther than I could throw a bull by the tail. If you think you have an inch of ground to stand on, cut out the shadow-boxing and get this case before the U. S. Supreme Court. I'll wager it will pluck your FDIC so close that, in comparison to its nudity, Hugh Johnson's defeathered Blue...