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...place, Attorney General Cummings snaffled one of the brightest of the New Deal's young lawyers from the Treasury Department: Robert Houghwout Jackson, the Bureau of Internal Revenue's Assistant General Counsel. Rated the No. 1 prosecutor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, this Jamestown, N. Y. attorney had personal charge of the Government's attempt to collect $3,000,000 of additional taxes from Andrew William Mellon (TIME, April 15 et ante...
...winter afternoon in 1891, a gymnasium instructor at Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, Springfield, Mass., named James A. Naismith divided his class of 18 into two sides, gave them an old soccer ball, had them toss it through two bottomless peach baskets hung on the wall. That was the beginning of what is now the most popular winter game in the U. S. Last year, Olympic officials discovered that basketball is played by 18,000,000 addicts almost the world around, therefore added it to the program at Berlin next summer...
...Olympic games next sum mer. Last week colleges which approved the idea added i? to the price of every basketball ticket. For his Berlin trip Inven tor Naismith, it was estimated, got $1,000. In 1891, Dr. Naismith hoped he had dis covered a pastime which would supply Y. M. C. A. boys with healthy exercise without encouraging roughness or bad tem per. Main feature of its extraordinary growth has been the tendency of basket ball to grow more violent every year. The winter's noisiest basketball row broke last week. Undefeated in 20 games, New York University...
...Hollister 15-11, 15-12, 15-12; Gilder (H) defeated Davie 15-11, 15-12, 15-13; Captain E. Rotan Sargent (H) defeated Cookman 15-10, 13-15, 15-6, 15-7; Sulloway (H) defeated Holmes 15-12, 11-15, 18-16, 18-16, 8-15, 17-16; Graham (Y) defeated Donald E. Jackson, Jr. '37 15-12, 15-12, 15-10; Richard M. Dorson '37 defeated Berry 17-15, 15-12, 8-15, 15-12; John L. Clark '36 defeated Clemens 15-10, 16-18, 15-9, 15-12; Kerr (Y) defeated Jeffrey R. Short...
...Force -began a fortnight's play at war under the toughest conditions it could find, in winter-ridden New England. Since there was no "enemy," no "tactical problem," but merely a fight against Nature, the maneuvers themselves proved of little interest to the public. Using Mitchel Field, N. Y., Concord, N. H. and Burlington, Vt. as bases, 62 pursuit, attack and bombing planes carrying 216 men, began chasing back & forth over snowy hills to test equipment and find out, among other things, if machine-gun oil will lubricate at sub-zero temperatures. What made last week...