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...Yale became a member of the Association and the number of players was reduced to eleven with positions about the same as on a modern team. At the same time a rule was made that the player who held the ball should put it in play by kicking or snapping it back with his foot. The player who first received the ball from the "snap-back" was called the quarter-back and was not allowed to run with the ball...
Later, because Dr. Salomon's manners were infinitely better than those of most newspaper photographers, because he interrupted nobody, bothered nobody, he was invited to public functions, allowed to snap his shutter openly. He has attended League of Nations meetings. He snapped the signing of the Kellogg Pact. When the late great Gustav Stresemann made his last speech at Geneva, Dr. Salomon was calmly seated below the rostrum. He accompanied Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Curtius and snapped them sipping coffee with // Duce. Brer Briand, Europe's "Master Parliamentarian," has given him a nickname that...
...Chicago's 13,000 schoolteachers, unpaid since last April, went back to work, wondered what they were to use for money. A waiting list of 2,000 was ready to snap at vacancies. The School Board owes the teachers $10,695,973, has no funds in sight. Taxes are due next month, but it is doubtful how much can be collected. It might be two years before the whole sum is raised. Destitute, desperate, many teachers have accepted "script." an I. O. U. from the city, cashable for much less than its face value. First day of registration, high...
...field upside down at a height of 200 ft., cut his motor and made a perfect landing after three loops and a barrel-roll. This was the best stunting of the day. Lieut. Williams ended the display by flying a triangular course upside down around the field, executing two snap rolls and a vertical figure eight...
...painted last summer by Greek Artist Pilides Costa. In an extemporaneous speech of thanks President Hoover declared: "It is difficult for me to express with my natural-I hope natural-modesty that it gives one pleasure to see oneself portrayed in a better fashion than the normal snap photograph. [This picture] may serve as an antidote to some of the current portraits under which I suffer. . . . "This club has stood steadfast. ... Its membership has stood steadfast. . . . After two years of fever and tumult in Washington, I assure you this is a gratifying occasion." That the club had not required...