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...Department of Justice prosecutors went to U. S. District Judge John Percy Nields at Wilmington, charged that Weirton was outside the law, asked for an injunction which would knock out the company union. When the case began as a paper fight, Judge Nields threw 1,060 affidavits out of court with orders that the deponents be brought before him so he could gauge their credibility on the witness stand (TIME, June 11). After this false start, it took nearly two months to hear the flesh & blood evidence both sides marched to the stand-the tales of union and non-union...
Coach Mitchell threw them together into temporary units and will probably change them completely again this afternoon. One interesting item was football captain Bob Haley being given a shot at third base. He wasn't on the Varsity a year ago, but there have been rumors that he will play either at first or third...
Archbishop, Cameraman. Discreet Cameraman Thomas Walker, who threw away his tiny $300 camera before slipping out of Russia last spring, confined his snapping to the Ukraine. Of that district, in the House of Lords, the Archbishop of Canterbury later said: "There was going on a famine of a degree of severity which has hardly ever before been known...
...suffering Mr. White limped, game to the last, into the Princeton dressing room, the local genius presiding over the white rags and smelly fluids threw up his hands in despair. "Who the hell did that?" quoth he, and forth-with ripped the bandages from our feebly protesting star and tied him up with the Princeton half-hitch. That was all very well until, after the squad hit Cambridge again, our hero, smiling through his tears, visited Dillon Field House to have some attention paid to the injured member. A cry of disgust rent the air. "Who the HELL did that...
Washington. Feb. 17--The nation's business leaders tonight threw their support behind a move by rebellions Senate Democrats to clip $2,000,000,000 (B) from the $4.880,000,000 (B) appropriation demanded by President Roosevelt for relief and his jobs-for-all program...