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These losses may not completely thwart the Crimson's chances, however, because in their win against Exeter the Yardlings, relied largely on the play of Berk Johnson, Bengt Sandberg, and Charley Ufford--all of whom will play today...
...heavy taxes they bear to maintain Socialist Britain's welfare program, and that old devil, the U.S. tariff. Some Americans, among them ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman (TIME, April 11), hold that this complaint has a sound basis; they believe that by agitating for higher tariffs and trying to thwart British trade, U.S. businessmen are actually working against their own interests. They believe it is up to the U.S. to help British and other European exporters through their troubles by allotting them a larger share of the dollar market...
...Administration's strategy began to emerge. Southern Senators, who had wandered off the reservation, would be told that Harry Truman did not intend to be "vindictive." The Southerners could vote as they pleased, but any effort to thwart the majority's will by filibustering a bill to death (such as an anti-poll-tax measure) would be sternly punished by cutting off federal patronage...
...cautiously for Army flood control proposals and the Reclamation Bureau's plans for irrigation development. In November, the Army and the Reclamation Bureau (headed by Major General Lewis Pick and W. G. Sloan) joined forces in a compromise; Senator Murray promptly accused them of hastening their agreement just to thwart...
...fine, gallant horses just on the tails of them. Farmer Larry Costello is a true Irishman, but when the Galway Blazers, the most famous hunt in all Ireland, bore down on his property, what did Larry do? He beat on buckets to drive the fox into the gorse and thwart the chase entirely...