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Little has been said of the excellent athletic program carried on in the Camp. Soft ball was the predominant sport, volley ball was a close second, while the barnyard game of horse-shoes took the "spare" time of many enthosiasts. "It's a ringer" was heard many an afternoon between close of drill and retreat. The final game of the soft ball league, played on Visitors' Day, was a thriller, such as one reads about in the sports magaiznes...
...building also contains facilities for basketball, badminton, and volley ball. It will be ready for use about the first of October...
Shouted at a packed Senate Chamber by Massachusetts' David Walsh, these violent words week were the final major volley of the bitterest political fight of 1938-against Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reorganize the executive department of the Federal Government. After portly Mr. Walsh had completed his tirade, echoed only a shade less vehemently by Senators Tydings, Vandenberg and Borah, the Reorganization Bill came to its two final votes...
Many of the candidates who report to Skip are inexperienced and didn't know the difference between a pigskin and a volley ball. But after a year they seemed to have learned their fundamentals thoroughly and are good material for Dick Harlow the next season...
...burned it also. Next call was the stone Federal building, where Federal troops were drawn up with loaded rifles. As the mob approached. General Manuel Contreras shouted: "Justice will be meted out to this prisoner! Justice will be meted out to this prisoner!" but the crowd swept on. A volley crashed out over their heads, then another straight at the leaders. The crowd broke. Dead in the gutter lay Romano Maldonado, 8; Salvadore Vasquez, 14; Vidal Torres, 56. Fourteen others lay wounded...