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...direction of Coaches Bill Murray and Cliff Gallagher, for the benefit of the Varsity. The affair was an informal dummy scrimmage and the Varsity coaches supervised the work of the defense. Continuing a scheme instituted last week, Coach Casey sent in four coaches against the Varsity's offense to trim up the assignment work. This method proved satisfactory last week and will probably be used again to put the polish on the first-stringers

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOCKE RESUMES PLACE AS "A" LEFT HALFBACK | 11/22/1933 | See Source »

...such men as Sewell Avery, John V. Farwell, Albert D. Lasker, Alexander Legge, Col. A. A. Sprague, E. L. Ryerson Jr., Thomas E. Donnelley, were issuing a manifesto against Inflation. The Crusaders, who have found their Holy Grail. Repeal, announced a new crusade: against Inflation. Even inflationists began to trim their sails when they saw the Government's credit threatened. Senator Elmer Thomas was declaring: "There need be no fear of printing press inflation. . . . With gold adequately repriced the problem of future stabilization is simplified. . . . Our currency system must support business on a scale that will insure profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Dollar's Week | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...Parliament reassembled last week the biggest armament man in the world, trim, grey-mustached Eugène Schneider, stood figuratively at bay. All through Depression the giant Schneider-Creusot works have been racing to fill orders, their furnaces blazing and their lathes screaming as they turned out guns and projectiles for Japan, and for such other good customers as China. With the French budget now cracking under a deficit of seven and one-half billion francs, the Chamber's ruling Left-Center politicians have resolved in recent weeks to crack down on French munitions makers for a larger share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Extreme Urgency | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...minutes before 4:30 p. m. one day last week at Newark Airport, United Air Lines' ten-place transport No. 23, bound for Chicago, taxied up to the passenger depot for loading. The passenger list was unusually small. There was a trim young woman who, flushed with excitement, confided in the pilot that she had missed the previous plane and had to be in Reno next morning "to visit her sister." (It turned out that she was to be married next day.) And there was a middle-aged man named Emil Smith, a retired grocer. Mr. Smith caused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Death on No. 23 | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...English gardener who landscaped Haverford's trim campus So years ago introduced cricket, still the favorite spring sport. Haverford calls freshmen "Rhinies" (as does Lawrenceville School). An annual custom is dressing in odd costumes for the last Ethics lecture of the year by Professor Rufus Matthew Jones, Haverford's most respected and oldest active teacher, 'Quaker theologian and member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry. The costume custom was nearly abandoned when a student appeared on a Kiddie Kar in long woolen underwear as Lady Godiva. Among Haverford's younger teachers are Leslie Hotson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Haverford's 100th | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

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