Word: true
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been reading a lot of bad things in the papers today about Harvard boys. I certainly hope they aren't all true...
...usual early season push-overs and no definite line on the real power of these combinations has been gleaned. Plenty has been written about the potentialities of these various elevens; optimism has reigned among their hosts of supporters, but the results of this Saturday's games will reveal the true worth of the teams...
...game itself," said Mr. Fisher, "I have frankly told Bill Bingham, the Harvard director of athletics, that if Texas has a good team in 1931, the game will be no set-up, but a real contest. He realizes that this is true, especially if Texas 'points' for the game. As to the game and the final score, I just hope the better team will win on merit, not on flukes or fumbles. The possibility of the score doesn't interest me so much as the fact of the game itself. What pleases me is that Harvard, the oldest American university...
...Sept. 23, at the top of p. 42: "United Gas Improvement and Public Service of New Jersey (its subsidiary) are both Mellon-controlled. . . ." The statements in this quotation are 100% erroneous. Public Service Corporation of New Jersey is not a subsidiary of the United Gas Improvement Company. It is true that the latter company has been for many years a substantial minority stockholders of Public Service-its proportion of voting strength at the present time amounting to 25.1%. Neither the United Gas Improvement Company nor Public Service Corporation of New Jersey are "Mellon-controlled." The so-called "Mellon interests" have...
...continent at the expense of his life. He may work a month on banana fuel, then find himself owing eleven francs because of huge taxes. Other Londres observations: 1) in French Africa a white man who strikes a black gets fined 25 francs; 2) native Africans practice true communism; 3) all Europe's old clothes and junk are sold to Africans; 4) the Negro is a football between African commerce and politics; 5) Senegalese World War veterans keep letters from French women addressed: "To my Mamadon! To my Sambo! To my dear black...