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...dollar's commodity value, as revealed by the Department of Labor's wholesale price index, was way up at $1.42, a rise of 1½? from the week before. To squash the dollar down toward the 1926 commodity value of 100?, President Roosevelt called in his ten-man monetary team. They decided, without much real knowledge of how soon it would affect the dollar's commodity value, to wrestle the gold dollar out in the world arena (see p. 51). ¶His preoccupation with his dollars made it fruitless for the President to talk War Debts with...
...York "Yankees": the national soccer championship, with a ten-man team (Capt. Alex McNab fractured his arm the day before in an exhibition game); from the Chicago "Bricklayers"; 2 to 0, in Chicago...
Once a national pastime, now a Big Business, baseball still remains the same old-time game. Unlike football, its authorities seldom countenance changes in the rules. This year they rejected a radical plan for ten-man teams (the tenth man was to bat for the pitcher...
...Ten-man teams representing the University and Yale will meet in their annual match at the Boston Chess Club at 7.30 o'clock this evening. Captain K. O. Mott-Smith '22 will lead the University players, while the other members of the team in the order in which they will play will be Alfred King '24, W. L. Prosser 1L., Llewellyn Hall 2M., W. T. Pattison '25, Mendon Morrill '23, Montgomery Major '25, R. A. Zinn '24, P. W. Parsons '25, and F. I. Carpenter...
...result of time trials held over the six and a half mile Belmont course yesterday afternoon, the two last members of the ten-man team which will face Yale at New Haven on Saturday were chosen. The men who were picked are W. F. Eaton '22 and Campbell New-hall '24. The complete team which will run against the Elis is as follows...