Word: placed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Place kicking came in for more than the usual amount of attention yesterday as Hank Vander Eb, Joe Koufman, George Heiden, and Bill Barnes split the uprights time after time...
...Number 3196 means simply another soldier for his peace time conscription army, but to Coach Dick Harlow and the Varsity football squad it means that next fall they will probably be without the services of Charley Spreyer, who yesterday was moved up to the first string tailback position in place of red-headed Don McNicol...
Inquisitive Reporter. In Washington, Political Pundit Mark Sullivan reported a conversation that took place one day last week at a White House press conference. First apologizing for his presumption, Reporter Merwin H. Browne of the Buffalo News asked Franklin Roosevelt a question: "In your forthcoming political speeches do you intend to answer charges . . . that you are seeking to become a dictator ... if you are elected to a third term...
Totalitarian Trend. In the Senate of the United States next day Majority Leader Alben William ("Dear Alben") Barkley rose to place a report by Columnists Joseph Alsop & Robert Kintner (concerning two brewers who were supposed to have contributed $100,000 to Leader Barkley's 1938 campaign for reelection) on the record. It was, said Senator Barkley, a "scurrilous, contemptible and indecent" article. "In my judgment [Alsop & Kintner] would rather tell a falsehood for nothing than be paid to tell the truth...
...income. Biggest items were food and drink -nearly $300,000 yearly. Sometimes two-thirds of the club's 1,200-odd members would lunch simultaneously. The secretary could recall only one member having to be suspended for using unsuitable language. On New Year's Eve the place was "like a morgue...