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...looking for ward to the opening of the individual state title tournament which will start February 1, on the courts of the Union Boat Club. M. O. Baker' 22, present champion who defeated W. P. Dixon '25, last year's University leader and national champion, for the title, will defend his crown in the coming tournament...
...most important matches of the year will come on February 20, 21, and 22, when the University squad will defend its national title in Washington, D. C., At the same time the individual championship of the National Squash Racquets Association will be defended by Dixon. Last season the title holder won the crown at Buffalo while participating in the team matches. The former University captain accomplished the notable feat of winning all his matches in both the individual and inter-district club tournaments...
...made the butt of jokes and the target of civic invective; Hylan, from Brooklyn, who was never a Tammany man although Tammany helped him to the mayoralty twice for a total of eight years; Hylan, who himself declared that he was persecuted by the traction "interests" and volunteered to defend the populace from their "schemes...
...Dulles, representing the New York Life, alleged that this litigation had been started in an effort to secure recognition for the Soviet Government by Washington: "It is the Soviets' belief that the U. S. firms involved cannot successfully defend these suits until the Soviet Government is recognized...
...frail French-Vatican relations) were summoned to the Pope's apartments. In the antechamber a sottoguardaroba handed each his scarlet zucchetto. Capped they proceeded into the presence of His Holiness who placed on each his scarlet biretta-the four-cornered, pinched-top cap-then heard their oaths to defend conscientiously the papal bulls concerning nonalienation of the possessions of the Roman Church, nepotism, papal elections, and cardinalitial dignity. Last May 30, two Spanish prelates were elevated to the scarlet: Eustachio Ilundain y Esteban, Archbishop of Seville, and Vincenzo Casanova y Marzol, Archbishop of Granada. The day before Cardinal Hayes...