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...Polo Grounds as Baugh completed 11 out of 15 passes, Cliff Battles gained more than 200 yards running, and Tackle Turk Edwards broke open the hitherto impregnable Giant line. The Redskins won 49-to-14. They went jauntily back to Washington, and as they rehearsed for the wind-up with the fearsome Bears, railroads offered jubilant Washington fans a special rate of $23.20 for the round-trip to Chicago. The Bears were 10-to-7 favorites. They had lost only one game (out of eleven) all season, the Redskins had lost three. Chicagoans predicted heavyweight Wrestling Champion Bronko Nagurski would...
...little six-year old boy with list clenched crept stealthily along the Eliot House fence one afternoon last week. He paused in front of the Master's residence for a brief moment, and scanned the horizon up and down Memorial Drive. Then, after a cute pitcher's wind-up, wham! went a rock right through one of the Master's prize windows. First came the pleasant tinkling of broken glass; then the awful silence that follows catastrophes; and finally the horrible roar of the outraged being within. Ten seconds later the front door flew open and out thundered Roger Bigelow...
Complications developed from the old Belasco play Shore Leave are of the boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl formula. The wind-up is a benefit show on board a freighter: boys-get-girls...
Anti-climactic though its wind-up was, the Court had amply justified the predictions of those who foresaw that the fate of the New Deal depended more on nine old men in black than on the 531 members of Congress (TIME, Nov. 26). When the nine Justices folded their black robes about them and marched out of their dark semicircular courtroom last week, a long and important chapter in Supreme Court history had come...
Last week, to Governor Talmadge's great glee, Administrator Hopkins abruptly canceled FERA's 30?-per-hour minimum wage rate for work relief, established last spring after the wind-up of CWA. Frankly admitted was the fact that in some communities the Government has been paying wages higher than private employers for the same work. Hereafter work relief pay will be scaled to community wage rates...