Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...like the Transport Workers' Mike Quill in Manhattan, Joe Curran of the National Maritime Union, pledged continued loyalty to John Lewis. Packinghouse workers in Illinois, who had stood in sullen silence weeks ago while Villkie pleaded with them, heard Lewis, voted to go with him. Their action might upset the Chicago Democratic plurality, put Illinois safely in the Willkie camp. Many in the rank & file of the mineworkers in Illinois and Pennsylvania loyally got ready to follow their leader. As the voice of labor rolled back at him, John Lewis waited, and listened...
Despite the fact that the Crimson is considered the favorite, Mikkola pointed out last night that either Yale or Princeton could easily upset the meet. But, he added that the Crimson's well balanced strength down the line should prove too much for the individual stars of the opposing teams...
This time Harvard hopes that Loren MacKinney will provide the spark to upset a favored Princeton eleven. He continued to occupy the blocking role while the team put in final practice licks for Saturday's game. Extra points and punting received a lot of attention yesterday, and the session was topped off with some concentrated work on the bags...
...prospect of losing another big foreign market, cotton men were naturally upset last week. But they had two compensating reflections: 1) U. S. cotton's No. 1 internationalist, quiet, aristocratic, canny William Lockhart Clayton of the cotton-broking firm of Anderson. Clayton & Co., has come out of recent anti-New Deal retirement to work for Nelson Rockefeller, coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Regulations with Latin America, the National Defense Council's agent for nudging U. S. commerce toward a hemisphere basis. Cottonmen were relieved that if defense must monkey with their crop, it would be done Will Clayton...
...pivot post. Army will be at full strength tomorrow. Their triple threat Sophomore fullback. Mazur, who missed last week's white washing, is back in the lineup. Of the present Cadet first string, Michel, the left tackle, and Gillis started last year's game, in which the Crimson upset the dopesters with a 15 to 0 shutout...