Word: matched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This collection of key men is, however, only one squad in the following with which John Garner has equipped himself in the Congress. Since Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon (1837-1927), who finally met in Jack Garner his match at poker, no man, not even the late convivial Nick Longworth, enjoyed such influence among members on both sides of the aisle in both Houses as this stubby, stubborn, pink & white billiken with the beak of an owl, eyebrows like cupid's-wings, tongue of a cowhand. He takes Capitol freshmen aside and instructs them philosophically. "Now, Scott," he said...
...Garner has a cute statement to match that one: "I am not giving a living soul permission to speak for me or to put forth my name as a candidate-but, I'm not telling anybody...
With the best team in recent years, Coach Rene Peroy will pit his fencers against Yale at New Haven this afternoon in their final match of the season. Led by Captain Skip Batchelder, the swordsmen have dropped only one dual meet so far this year and stand a good chance of winding up the season with an easy conquest of Yale...
Yale's ROTC 22-calibre pistol team defeated the Crimson pistol team in a telegraphic match last night by a score...
...match yesterday afternoon, Kim Canavarro and Frank Appleton disposed of their opponents in four sets, while it took Danny Ladd five to dispose of powers of the Racquots Club for the third Harvard win. Jim Rousmaniore could not get a set off his antagonist, and Warren Williams succeeded in winning only one to account for the two losses...