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...like little Lord Fauntleroys. Last week Old Burley, now 47 and manager of the minor-league Grand Rapids Club, reminded baseball fans that he has not lost his stuff. For spitting tobacco juice in an umpire's face, he was banished from organized baseball for one year, the stiffest punishment a manager ever received...
With a disappointing score, the Crimson wrestling team emerged from the Eastern Championships with seven points for a tie for sixth place. It was after the team had engaged in the stiffest competition in the history of the Championships...
Floyd Stahl's powerful Crimson nine waded through the stiffest week on its schedule just about as expected with three victories against one defeat. And they took care to get one of those triumphs over Penn, the only League tilt of the four...
...less than 22 States have already imposed chain taxes-and in a far-reaching decision, Louisiana's was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court. Last week, chain store men found solace in Pennsylvania, whose graduated tax ranging up to $500 per store has been one of the stiffest yet imposed. Because Pennsylvania's Constitution requires that all taxes must be uniform, Dauphin County Court declared it invalid...
...hardheaded psychiatrists or softhearted laymen realized that: 1) mercy killings now occur in the U. S. at the rate of one a week; 2) mercy killers are almost never convicted; 3) stiffest penalty imposed in recent years was three months in prison.* If a grand jury refuses to indict Louis Greenfield, it will add one more brick to the foundation of unwritten law condoning mercy killings. It will also strengthen the case of euthanasia advocates, headed by Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy. Euthanasiasts decry mercy killings by overwrought relatives, plump for a tightly written law which will...