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Outplayed the greater part of the game, Eliot managed to push over a touchdown late in the second quarter to de-fur the Rabbits 7-0. "Slugger" White, spark-plug of the Elephant attack, went over for the score on a 30-yard slash off tackle...
Russell is the first string center, and as the only veteran on the center squad, his loss will be keenly felt. To help plug the gap, Dick Harlow has decided to move versatile Cliff Wilson to the trigger position from his post at guard. Although Rick Hedblom, Dan Cheever and Bill Coleman have developed fast his fall, they are not sufficiently seasoned to start a Varsity game. A bad case of nerves usually accompanies a debut into Varsity competition and is often costly. At the center post it is usually fatal...
...Ambassador Josephus Daniels, having complained to the Mexican Government, was informed that the tax could not be suspended or revoked except by the improbable consent of the Mexican Congress. But while exporters grumbled and protested, it was already apparent that Mexico like other governments which try to plug income tax loopholes was not going to be 100% successful. Foreign sellers promptly treated the tax like an import duty, added 3% to their invoice prices, thus passed the bulk of the new tax to the down-trodden Mexican who will eventually buy their products...
...Wells is a spark plug. That he has had only a loose connection with the rest of the machine that makes the world's wheels go round is perhaps a pity, perhaps a good thing. If he had fitted perfectly into his social socket the sparks he has emitted for 40 years might well have been neither so noticeable nor so illuminating. On the other hand, Britain's cylinder might have sputtered a little less had Author Wells been firmly pressed into the national service. Pity or not, at 70* H. G. Wells remains what he has always...
...himself, the President packed up for a three weeks' rest at Hyde Park, longest vacation he has had since his South American trip last year. In Washington the President, wading into the accumulation of last minute legislation, signed the Tax Loophole Bill which the Treasury hopes will plug some $100,000,000 worth of holes in the income tax law, the $87.662.634 Third Deficiency Bill. He also signed Congress' ''promissory note" pledging to make farm legislation the first order of business in the next session, in return for which he had agreed to cotton crop loans...