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Clay Precedent. Down to West Virginia, politically a bastard offspring of the Solid South, the New Deal's political Generalissimo, Postmaster Farley, sent an old Democratic wheelhorse named Clement Lawrence Shaver. The last time the country heard of Mr. Shaver was just ten years ago, when as Democratic National Chairman he managed John W. Davis' magnificently unsuccessful run for the Presidency. Reason for sending Oldster Shaver back to his native State was to have him run for Senator against Old Deal Republican Senator Hatfield. Though he had the blessing of Mr. Farley, not as Postmaster General, not as party boss...
...Champ Wallace Beery was a sad superannuated pugilist. In Flesh he is a German wrestler named Polikai, gentle, generous, an easy mark for such a slick girl as Lora Nash (Karen Morley) who is the mistress of a thief (Ricardo Cortez) and the mother of a little illegitimate shaver. The thief undertakes to be Polikai's manager. Soon the whole menage-Polikai, Nash, thief and shaver-go from Germany to the U. S., where the thief tries to prearrange Polikai's match for the championship and to mistreat Lora Nash. Polikai strangles the thief, throws the champion (Wladek...
...Caucusing in Ottawa last week, founder-members of the Co-operative Commonwealth Party cheered their leader, Canadian M. P. James Shaver Woodsworth of Winnipeg, when he loudly proclaimed: "Our objective is a bloodless Canadian revolution to establish a new social order without capitalistic profits...
...Frankie Parker: "It was in 1927 that Frankie Parker came into my life. Little shaver, thin, puny, but quiet and attentive. . . . He had the best eye for a moving ball I've ever seen. . . . It took four years of the hardest work to get the boy's title. . . . Last year the wonder boy never lost a set. . . . He is to be the best of the pack...
What happened after that was so rapid, so out of keeping with what usually happens in Notre Dame games that 52,000 spectators who saw it found it hard to believe. Shaver threw two passes-one of 50 yd. to Sparling, another 23 yd. to Hall. Two downs later the ball was only 2 yd. nearer the goal. There were 60 seconds of the game left. Notre Dame, expecting another pass, saw Southern California's placekicker, Johnny Baker drop back to the 23-yd. line, saw the ball sail over the line of scrimmage, between the goal posts...