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...mine-run banker in St. Louis before Old Pal Harry Truman brought him to the White House as naval aide, Vardaman lately had been doing much speaking out against Federal Reserve credit curbs and the Board's ban on margin trading. But what few listeners have realized is that Jake Vardaman claims to put out such thoughts "as an individual." He does not feel that he is laying down FRB policy. But his "unofficial" opposition has created plenty of confusion...
...Techmen, according to reports emanating downstream, have a wealth of good material but as yet have not welded the material into a consistently winning outfit. Two weeks ago they lost to Tufts by the score of 3 to 2, the same margin by which the Crimson heat the Jumbos, over a month ago. Rizo-Patron, playing at the inside right is their high scorer with an average of better than a goal a game while Dimitrion, the left fullback, is the backbone of the defense...
With the Lamarmen leading 8 to 7 is the latter stages of the contest, Jayee end Dana Bresnahan revevered a blocked punt on the Freshman 35-yard line to set up the drive for the final margin of victory. Tom Moseley subsequently passed to Bill Fitz for 16 yards, and followed with toss to Bud McDaniel, who made a spectacular snag in the end zone for the deciding score...
After the Lowell line had pushed the Dudley men back deep into their own territory, the Bellboys took over at mid-field and marched to the 12 where Pat Bowditch hit Loring Briggs with an aerial for the first score. Dan Silver converted for what was the winning margin. Herb Allard's 40-yard runback of an interception and a recovered fumble set up the other threats...
...experts warn that the combination this indicated would give the winning faction only 53% of the votes, which is within the 5% margin of error which experience shows must be allowed in polls of this sort. It is possible, in these circumstances, that neither party will win. (It is assumed that the "don't care" and "don't like either" group will naturally vote for minor parties...