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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALES OF MIL. SCI., NAVAL R.O.T.C. CAMPS | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...building also contains facilities for basketball, badminton, and volley ball. It will be ready for use about the first of October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Million Dollar Public Administration Building Nears Completion | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ninth-Inning Rally | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skip Stahley, Coach of Three Sports, Trains Future Varsity Gridmen Well | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Death at Aunty Jane | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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