Word: trippings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, after a bracing yachting trip on the Potomac with Associate Justices Felix Frankfurter and Harlan F. Stone, the President made an announcement which sent the General Staff into a glad quickstep. His limited emergency proclamation last month gave him clear authority to increase the enlisted strength of Army, Navy, Marine Corps and National Guard, said the President; therefore he had the implied authority to spend the necessary money, and he intended to go ahead, ask Congress afterwards...
Three more men were promoted to the Red squad, bringing the total to 33 players. Those elevated were Summers, Tom Lacey, husky guard, and Hank Vander Eb, back. Of this squad of 33, thirty will make the trip to Chicago on Thursday...
...more definite than that were the other generalizations of the four-day gathering and boat trip. Bankers saw small chance of Government agencies taking over their functions, denounced Federal deficits, deplored the growth of the Government-inspired U. S. "gimme" attitude, felt that no long-run good would come to U. S. business from World War II. On one issue, however, they were with President Roosevelt. They wanted the neutrality act revised...
...After a transcontinental train trip in 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson (his fellow travelers called him "Shakespeare") tells what it was like to sleep on a board stretched between two seats, to wash in a tin dish on the car's windy platform...
...clock Friday afternoon, seven of Jaakko Mikkola's harriers will board the bus for the trip to Nickerson Field, the site of their first competition of the season, with Boston University. The coach expects a good showing from his men, most of whom are on their way back into form. W. Penn Tuttle '40, will captain the team; others running will be: Richard Wing '40, E. Langdon Burwell '41, Lightbody '40, Malcolm Mackenzie '41, Eugene V. Clark '40, and Frank L. Porter...