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...poor record this year, the Longhorns in their short workout yesterday looked big, smooth-working, and potentially powerful. Containing practically all the members of last year's superb team, the present Texan eleven has dismally failed to equal its predecessor. Following an easy victory over Missouri, the Longhorns were upset in their next game with Rice, and recovered in time for a bare win over Oklahoma last week...
...asserted that the agreement was approved by Attorney General Mitchell and "an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury." In Washington the Department of Justice had admitted approving this deal, insisted the procedure was customary. Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills had denied knowing anything about it. Judge Wilkerson had upset the plans by declaring: "The court will listen to recommendations, but it is utterly impossible to bargain with a Federal court." Then he had allowed frightened Capone to change his plea to not guilty, had sought?and failed ?to have a grand jury indict him under the Jones...
Matter of fact, Statesman Stimson was so upset about China & Japan and whether they were resorting to war as an instrument of national policy or just fighting, that he did not go out to lunch. Beaming Negroes brought steaming trays. Without leaving his desk, the Secretary munched with his advisers, including U. S. Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes, in Washington on vacation. Alarmingly the New York Herald Tribune, chief Administration newsorgan, reported: "The situation in Manchuria holds the major attention of the State Department. . . . Open warfare between China and Japan would present a more delicate international problem for this...
...error made by Third Baseman Flowers of St. Louis in the sixth game. His wild throw to first base upset young Pitcher Paul Derringer who thereafter walked four batters, forced in two runs...
...were be wailing the scantiness of university news. Professor Shaw dug up and gave them his diatribe against whistling. "I never dreamed such a thing would cause such a stir," roared he last week. "But it's a good thing. It keeps the world from becoming too much upset over such things as the gold standard and the world series...