Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speeches on his "intake" Western tour, Franklin Roosevelt discovered two subjects that were sure-fire with all audiences. One was Peace. The other was balancing the budget. First thing the President did on his return was to reshape U. S. foreign policy. Last week he turned his attention to the budget...
...never been persuaded to take professional football very seriously. Last year in Detroit, where some 20,000 people were willing to pay up to $3.30 every week out of sheer delight in professional football, the Detroit Lions finished third among the four teams in the National League's Western Division. Meanwhile, in Boston, even when George Preston Marshall's Redskins dramatically won the championship of the Eastern Division, Bostonians remained apathetic. This year disgusted Mr. Marshall pulled his football team up from Boston by the roots, transplanted it to Washington...
...passes have been completed-for a gain of 707 yd. His running record is almost as impressive. Versatile Sam Baugh is the main reason why the Redskins are now only half a game behind the powerful Giants, why in mid-December they may possibly meet the champions of the Western Division-likely to be the Chicago Bears or the Green Bay Packers-for the National League championship...
...Balearic Islands. Secret agents at Palma, Majorca had noted unusual activity among the Rightist garrison and the 20,000 Italian troops quartered there, reported that an attempt was about to be made to seize the Leftist island of Minorca. The British and French have been thick in the western Mediterranean ever since the Spanish civil war began, and the New York Times was authority for the announcement that "Precautions were ordered that both British and French vessels should be in evidence to prevent any attempted seizure [of Minorca] by anyone else...
This statement was more emotional than true, for it is common knowledge among informed followers of the game in western Pennsylvania that while Pittsburgh's football-playing "scholarship boys" get their tuition and books free, plus $48.50 a month for board, room and clothes, subsidized Duquesne players are paid not only with free tuition, books, meals, rooms and clothing but $15 a month besides (from sporty alumni) for spending money. Pitt rooters, therefore, thought Father Jones had committed an unpardonable indiscretion and the Duquesne administration hastily apologized to Pittsburgh...