Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleeve, that Harvard wasn't at all prepared for. In the first half, you will remember that the scarlet-jerseyed horde was playing a balanced line--an equal number of men on each side of center. Even that tricky shift finally resolved itself into a balanced forward wall. The Harvard linemen were able to take care of themselves against this system. The shift held no terrors for them as long as Bates started its play from behind a balanced line...
...year later, irrepressible "Bernie" Baruch ended his 64th year by pulling out of Wall Street, moving his office from No. 120 Broadway four miles uptown to the corner of 57th and Madison (TIME, July 2). He was resolved that the financial district should see less of him, the public hear more. To that end he addressed himself to writing three books, largely about Bernard Baruch. Biographer Marquis James (Andrew Jackson, the Border Captain) was hired to help in their preparation...
...AFFAIRS. "I like to think of myself," the smiling Jew once told a friend, "as the Disraeli of America." The Disraeli image broadened when President Roosevelt invited him up to Hyde Park the third day he was home. Last week, when his onetime lieutenant resigned from NRA, Wall Street was offering even money that Hugh Johnson's boss would be Hugh Johnson's successor. Recalled was this Baruchism: "I've been like a good athlete who is always ready and always in training. And then some God-damned fool drops the ball and . . . they say, 'Baruch...
...like an Army mule driver and when he reached the end of his rope and he realized that the people were about to rise in revolt, he resigned. A very shrewd man!" Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, the Pennsylvania Governor's lady who thought of General Johnson as a Wall Street strikebreaker, crowed: "I told...
...Robert Darnell Company, Wall Street betting commissioners. tonight quoted Detroit the favorite to win the World Series for the first time since it was known the Tigers and St: Louis Cardinals would be series opponents...