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...From the huddle a team can come out into any one of a multitude of formations the exact nature of which is concealed from the defense until almost the instant when the ball is put in play. This result could not be achieved if the team made all its moves from a standard formation, because the defense could move with, and as fast as the offense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. L. Knox, Second's Mentor, Defends Use of Huddle System --Says That Huddle Gives Offense Greater Versatility | 12/7/1926 | See Source »

...defense, headed by shrewd Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, contends: 1) That the Elk Hills leases were both a profitable and a patriotic move for the Government, because in return for them the Doheny interests built an oil reserve plant for the U. S. at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii;* 2) That the entire transaction was urged and approved by onetime (1921-24) Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby; 3) That Secretary Fall had only wanted to serve in President Harding's Cabinet for one year as "the capstone of his public career," and that he stayed a second year because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Two Old Men | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...sympathy with the 18th Amendment and is a Catholic should not disqualify him. It is my calm, deliberate judgment that Smith would not lose a single Southern State. ... I have no further po litical ambitions, but I expect to take an active part in the move ment to nominate Al Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Calm | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...company has been in Ware since 1835. Girls and boys go to work with their grandparents. Families live in its tenements. They rent company six-room cottages for $1.50 a week. Otis Co. has been Ware's maintenance and its culture. Last week company stockholders were planning to move their works to Alabama where "poor whites" work longer hours and for less money than at Ware. Yet factory work pays better than farming, with cotton at 12? a pound. Ware hopes that Henry Ford who is re-establishing Colonial industries at Sudbury, Mass., will come to Ware and keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deserted Town | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...Dramatic Club has got to rehearse somewhere else, and decide its location very quickly. It has been suggested that the choice fall upon Parke Snow's vacant store on Massachusetts Avenue, but at present just where the Dramatic Club will move its papier-mache brick walls and scenic archways, and its Three Oranges is a secret...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRECKERS TO DEMOLISH BARN WHERE THESPIANS REHEARSE | 11/30/1926 | See Source »