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Samuels started on the mound for Princeton and lasted until the eventful third inning, when the Crimson batters blasted him out of the box with six consecutive hits. After Loughlin had rolled to the box, Adams was safe on a scratch infield single to Neel. Then in quick succession Ware followed with a Texas leaguer that dropped in short left and Thacher scorched a two-bagger which bounded in to the right-field stands. Adams crossed the plate but Ware was held on third by the two-base rule. With the infield playing close, Nevin cracked out a single...
...gold standard. The nation's industries were at a standstill. The public pulse was beating a panicky tattoo. The Federal Government was so bowed with accumulated deficits as to threaten national credit. Ahead lay only economic uncertainty. If ever a Secretary of the Treasury started from scratch, it was Mr. Woodin last week...
Squiggle-squiggle went the President's pen as he signed bill after bill. When he came to the one appropriating $1,083,567,534 for independent offices, he paused, stood up, read parts of it, tossed it aside. Then he sat down. The scratch of his pen blended with the blurred bumble of voices coming through the swinging doors to the Senate chamber. A second bill went into the discard-a last-minute measure by South Carolina's Smith providing for a government cotton pool in return for acreage reduction. Herbert Hoover still had a mind...
...bankers. Three weeks ago when Michigan's Governor Comstock closed all banks in the state, Mr. Ford had $7,500,000 in Union Guardian Trust Co., $22,000,000 in First National (TIME, Feb. 20, 27). After the shut-down the Detroit bankers began to scratch barren ground for new capital with which to reopen Guardian National Bank and First National. Finally the bankers betook themselves humbly out to Dearborn and asked for a conference with the one man who could save their city and State...
...Morse '34 ran a beautiful race in the 600, the most exciting event in the meet. Starting from scratch, Morse covered the distance in one minute, 16 seconds, three-tenths of a second before S. C. Dorman '33, with a handicap of 15 yards, crossed the finish line. N. P. Dodge '33 was third in this event...