Word: racketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bunny Austin of England, playing in flannel shorts and white socks, beat Keith Gledhill in three sets. Vivian McGrath of Australia who holds his racket with both hands for backhands, surprised his Davis Cup teammates by losing to Harry Lee of England. Ellsworth Vines twisted his ankle but proved it was nothing serious by making short work of little Ryusaka Miki of Japan. Next day Lester Stoefen of Texas and George Patrick Hughes of Ireland defeated Lee and Clifford Sutter, respectively. Little Henri Cochet. who had been riding a bicycle to harden his leg muscles, did amazingly well...
...service games; sometimes he won without using more than four balls. Even when after winning the first he dropped the second and third sets, he seemed clearly in control of the match, waiting for Crawford to tire. When he came out for the fourth with a new racket and began to hit his flat drives even harder than before, it looked more than ever as though Crawford was on the run. When Vines took the set and they started the last one with 23 games each, the crowd of 20,000 scarcely dared to breathe. Each man won his serve...
Against the German Nazi racket across the border. Austria's little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss last week stoutly turned his bottle-shaped back, tried to stuff his ears. A special Hitler propagandist had come to Austria: Bavarian Minister of Justice Hans Frank, with two colleagues. When the three stepped from their plane last fortnight on a Vienna landing field, a police official told them they were "not very desirable." Nevertheless, Dollfuss permitted them to speak non-politically to 30,000 Austrian Nazis at a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the delivery of Vienna from the Turks.* The audience soon...
...phrase in Depression. "Protective committees" are formed, they solicit holders of defaulted bonds to deposit their securities, they try by protest and lawsuit to collect-the expenses of the effort being charged against the bond owners. So many protective committees exist today that they have been called "the bellyaching racket." Even the proposed U. S. securities bill would create a corporation to protect U. S. holders of foreign bonds. And a committee was announced last week in London, to be headed by popular Sir Harry Armstrong, who retired in 1931 as British Consul-General at Manhattan, to protect British holders...
...public service prize (gold medal costing $500) was won not by a single exploit but by a medley of campaigns pushed by the World-Telegram last year: an exposé of discreditable phases of veterans' relief by Reporter Talcott Powell; a series on the real estate bond racket by Reporters Joseph Lilly & Fred Woltman; an expose of the lottery schemes of the Eagles and Moose lodges which led to Federal prosecution (TIME. Aug. 29 et seq.) by Reporter Winston Murrill; urging New York City voters to write-in the name of upstanding Joseph V. McKee for Mayor, after Tammany...