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Attempting to run their unbroken string of victories up to four straight, the Freshman tennis team will travel to Providence tomorrow afternoon to meet Brown. The men making the trip will be: James J. Fuld, Richard M. Dorson, William Minot, Jr., Lawrence Ross, Anderson Page, Elwood Henneman, Thomas Sherwin, and Robert C. Holcombe...
When turtle-beaked Boss Curry became leader of Manhattan's Democracy five years ago, Tammany was the unchallenged political power in the nation's No. 1 city, a controlling factor in the State. Soon thereafter began a string of monotonous mistakes. Tammany stood by Mayor "Jimmy" Walker long after the dirt in the municipal nest foredoomed his Administration. Tammany put its bets on Al Smith instead of Franklin Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Tammany bucked the nomination of honest Herbert Henry Lehman for Governor of the State. Tammany foisted bumbling old John Patrick...
...Jackson County is undisputed. Every county officer is obligated to him, virtually every State officer owes his job to Pendergast support, and he personally lifted Governor Guy Brasfield Park from an obscure rural judgeship to the State House in 1933. Boss Pendergast finds politics "good business," supports a string of racehorses with his profits...
...John Reeves Ellerman was one of the least publicized and richest men in the world. An impressive fellow with a great spade beard and a hawk nose, he owned and operated some half-dozen lines of steamers, besides great quantities of real estate and at one time a string of newspapers and a batch of London smart-charts. Living in an almost miserly simplicity, he was only a vague name to most Britons, despite his fat checks to British charities. His last charity occurred when he died in Dieppe last July, aged 71, leaving an estate...
...this year's Freshman team, ten men have already been selected as the first string lineup. They are Nicholas J. Bounakos, John A. Carter, Alan J. Dimond, Bruce H. Fernald, George D. Hartstone, William H. Howe, Jr., George D. Keller, Daniel F. Keyes, Laurence B. Levy, and Merrill B. Rubinow. Most of these men have had experience in the game while in prep-school...