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...anti-Rooseveltian Democrats who helped defeat the Court Plan jumped jubilantly into the fight against it. First test of their strength was an amendment proposed by Massachusetts' David Walsh to leave the civil service administration under a three-man commission. It was defeated, but by such a narrow margin-50-to-38-that Floor Leader Alben Barkley promptly betrayed the fact that his alarm outweighed his satisfaction by leaving himself appallingly wide open to a rude jibe from Idaho's Borah. To Mr. Borah's suggestion that the President favored shifting the Forest Service from the Agriculture...
...series of swift moving scoring drives featured by deft lateral passes, the visitors romped to an early lead and left at half-time with a one-sided 27-0 margin. Apparently discouraged, the Crimson was unable to check the English parade of scores that 23 additional tallies in the last 35 minute period...
Precariously perched on the top of the House ladder at the close of the winter sports competition, the bellboys, with a grand total of 736 1/2 points to date, are leading Kirkland by a slim five point margin, Adolph W. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, announced yesterday...
Blake, Appleton, Rousmaniere, and Easton, who with Sulloway made up the team that lost to Yale two weeks ago by a one point margin, will probably see action against the English courtmen, who face an aggregation of Harvard graduates on Friday...
...narrow margin (37-to-30) the Assembly had voted down a proposal to have the proceedings broadcast over a national hookup. Concealing whatever chagrin he felt at this. Convict Mooney, dressed in the neat blue suit he wears on such occasions, began his story quietly into a loudspeaker which promptly required adjustment. While it was being repaired, newspaper and newsreel cameramen flocked about the celebrity. Said Convict Mooney: "I hope you people in the room will bear with me but after being buried for 21 years ... I sort of take to all this...