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Bernard W. ("Barney") Snow, G. O. P. leader of Cook County and a director of the new Federation, declared that, though nonpartisan, the Federation would work politically to abolish the Federal Farm Board and 79 other Governmental agencies competing with private business. The Federation pledged itself to "put an end to the undermining of the principles of American government by the encroachment of Socialism and Communism...
...A.U.S. team of track & field athletes: a meet against the combined teams of South African and Transvaal Universities, at Johannesburg, South Africa; by winning ten out of twelve events, in four of which (discus, pole-vault, shot-put, javelin-throw) Pennsylvania's Bernard ("Barney") Berlinger made new South African records...
...Charles, Oneida Indian decathlon champion, whose foremost rival was large and angular Jess Mortensen, onetime Southern California javelin-throwing champion; George Spitz, N. Y. U. freshman who high-jumped well over six feet when he was a school boy and now holds the world's unofficial indoor record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all-around man; Herman Brix, blond Los Angeles giant who had won the shot-put championship three years in a row and won it again last week; Eddie Tolan, Michigan's stubby Negro, and many another runner who has not yet been outrun by renown...
...many of the autographs of film stars, not that I deserve it-but it is an indication that the American public does not desert its sport idols altogether. And another, thing! Nearly every speed cop when he catches up with a speeder asks "Hey, d'ya think yer Barney Oldneld?" That is, of course, when they're not askin': "Whezdafire, huh?" and "Wher' th'lya goin'?" You know me, BARNEY OLDFIELD...
...second at a wildly reclining angle in midair. Then he straightened, shot clear, dropped into a limp heap on the sawdust pile. The crossbar, placed at the height for a new intercollegiate record of 14 ft. ½ in., shivered but did not fall. A few minutes later, versatile Barney Berlinger of Pennsylvania (TIME, May 4), broke a tie for second place and Southern California had won the meet?46% points to Stanford's 44 22/35...