Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Georgia Mehre Florida 14-0 128-35 Michigan Kipke Illinois 7-6 108-12 Purdue Kizer Carnegii 17-7 65-20 Out of 164 starters, the six college teams listed above, unbeaten through last week, remained at midseason the chief Humpty Dumpties of 1933's football wall. Some of them would have a great fall by Thanksgiving Day. All might be tumbled, even Southern California which had kept a solid perch from early 1931 until last month when little Oregon State jostled it with a scoreless tie. Michigan came perilously close to slipping from...
...because farmers are still losing their homes in spite of the Farm Credit Administration, at Shenandoah, Iowa Milo Reno was enthusiastically cheered when he described the Agricultural Adjustment Act as "diabolical." He demanded the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. "Wallace's education and association with Wall Street have made him what he is today. Wallace would make a second-rate county agent if he knew a little more." Shenandoah's farmers paraded through the streets of the little country town, in solemn protest. At the fair grounds a dummy marked HENRY WALLACE was soundly spanked...
...stood: Fusion Candidate Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, 217,599; Recovery Candidate Joseph Vincent McKee, 169,715; Tammany's Candidate, Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, 51,562. Undoubtedly Candidate LaGuardia had drawn ahead for a while in the preceding fortnight but other, more up-to-date straw-voting persuaded Wall Street betters to reinstate McKee last week-end as the favorite at even money, with odds against LaGuardia...
...Twice they made touchdowns and once they carried the Army within plunging distance of another. Between times Buckler kicked superbly, once sent a punt sailing and rolling 87 yd. Army's hard-charging line, marvelously made from raw material this season, was alternately a stone wall and a steamroller. The decisiveness of Army's victory null caused many a dopester to wager it would go through the season undefeated (by Harvard, Navy, Notre Dame...
...exhibit there were plenty of other mementoes of Goudy's career. In cases around the wall were the original drawings, matrices and specimen sheets of most of the 87 type faces. Most of the sheets were hand set and printed by Bertha Goudy who can match her husband's repu tation as a type designer with her own as the world's ablest woman printer. In Marlborough, N. Y., despite exhausting and remunerative* work for publishers, advertising agencies and type founders, the Goudys still do with their own hands all the work of the original Village Press...