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Chances. By last week, after a month of studying all 16 teams, baseball experts were prepared to make their predictions as to how the season will end. Probable winners in the American League, according to a consensus compiled by the Associated Press, will be neither the 1934 pennant-winning Detroit Tigers nor the New York Yankees, who finished second, but the Cleveland Indians. A team of young players, managed by oldtime Pitcher Walter Johnson, the Indians showed surprising strength last year. This year they will start the season without their star shortstop, Bill Knickerbocker, but they have two promising...
...Consensus was that he had not. But while nobody would ever again electrify the part of Sadie Thompson as Jeanne Eagels had, it was agreed that Tallulah Bankhead's Thompson was well worth watching. Where Jeanne Eagels' Sadie had seemed to maintain at least a vestige of hidden personal reserve, Tallulah Bankhead's flounced all over the stage with the abandon of the late Texas Guinan. In accounting for Miss Bankhead's failure to shade her various denunciations of the preacher who wanted to bring Sadie to salvation by way of a penitentiary sentence, only...
...Washington consensus that the banking bill had been speeded to Congress to divert Senator Glass from his attack on the $4,000,000,000 Work Relief Bill. Certainly the banking bill was cleared by the White House so quickly that Governor Eccles did not have a chance to show it to the peppery little Virginia Senator in advance as he had promised. Senator Glass was hopping mad at what he considered a deliberate White House slight and took it out on Governor Eccles, accusing him of breaking his word. Governor Eccles hastily telephoned the Senator, explained that President Roosevelt...
Sweeping economics have been made, we are informed by the Business Administrator. The general consensus of student opinion finds an unfortunate double meaning in the word, sweeping. With unparalled efficiency, the officials ordain that each goodie shall have twelve of fourteen suites to clean and a maximum of fifteen minutes for each suite...
...Consensus of shipping men was that the fog had cost them $1,000,000. James Henry Kimball, Manhattan's longtime weatherman, was inclined to double that figure. American, Eastern and United Air Lines and TWA estimated fog losses totaling $110,000. Manhattan's Empire State Building put its loss of sightseeing revenue...