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...reputation as a dirty player. but he is good, as is All-Ivy fullback Bill Murray, with second team All-Ivy Federico Rojas, like Huerta junior college All-American, forward Chris Agoliati, and fullback Matt Mauro, Cornell with challenge Penn and Harvard for the title. The Crimson hold a trump card against each, however, playing both teams at home...
...just this kind of protest which the Republicans avoided and, when necessary, counteracted like a malignant tumor. Their trump card was the 3000 Young Voters for the President (YVPs), who were invited to Miami Beach at their own expense to provide a roving cheering section for the Republican cause. These "representative youths" dressed right, smiled a lot, concocted homemade campaign placards, spoke to the media whenever possible, and practiced cuing in Convention Hall. A mimeographed directive instructed the YVPs to cheer whenever youth was mentioned, whenever victory in November was mentioned, whenever victory in November was mentioned, whenever the President...
...maneuverings went bankrupt in 1940 when he received no new deals from FDR and endorsed Wendell Wilkie, the Republican candidate. Convinced that labor would get concessions from that did, this was Lewis's only trump card to ensure CIO's Independence. Other alternatives were very few, but to ask labor to abandon FDR was going too far despite Mortimer's lack of faith in the President. "If, in his efforts to get the economy back and functioning, a few crumbs in the form of WPA and CCC fell to labor, it was incidental and not because FDR was basically...
Despite his either to end the War or exorcise the Duo, depression and inflation, from the national economy, Nixon has retained his strength in Clubs, his trump suit in his victory. Carefully choreographed announcements of troop withdrawals and diplomacy and the statistical of declining crime rates have the AMVETS, Knights of Columbus, and Clubs card carriers of middle America the belief that the President is down the war and cracking down crime and disorder. Moreover, Nixon been able to "deescalate" in without alienating the career military, military industries or the numerous middle communities whose post-Korean economic growth has been...
...what goes on. But I'm the one who has to make the decisions. I'm the trainer." He is also a master at selecting the right horse for the right race. Says the Daily Racing Form: "Charlie Whittingham enters horses like a bridge player laying down trump cards-a few cerebral clicks, and usually he pulls the right card...