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...victim retaliated by charging several councilmen, including Jack Pool, with cheating. On the third day, after a grilling, he withdrew all charges. Suddenly President Pool rose, took a deep breath, announced that, along with all the members of a French class, he had cheated during his freshman year. Well aware that freshman cheating is not ordinarily cause for suspension, he demanded that he be made an exception. In shocked silence the council voted unanimously to suspend Jack Pool...
...injured a siren stops the jam, the contestant's teammate takes the track. Most serious fall in Chicago's current Roller Derby occurred last week when a Mrs. Albie Whitney crashed into a railing, broke her shoulder. She and her husband, last married couple in the race, withdrew. Only family team left was 39-year-old Mrs. Josephine Bogash, wife of a Wabash R. R. fireman, teamed with her 19-year-old son Bill...
Because the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce is dominated by manufacturers, all the scheduled airlines in the U. S. last week withdrew from it, formed a new body called the Air Transport Association of America. Its purpose: Coordination of schedules, credit, advertising, buying power, engineering data. Its president: Colonel Edgar Staley Gorrell...
...returned to play, neither his rest nor his mascot cat, which sniffed the board before each game, could stave off Dr. Euwe's determined efforts. In the 25th game, Alekhine sacrificed two pawns in the opening, hoped to snare his opponent's queen. Watchful Dr. Euwe withdrew the piece from danger, forced Alekhine to resign, went into the lead for the first time. Two days later he won the 26th, then lost the 27th. The next two ended in draws...
...accepted the plan, set Jan. 10 as Election Day. To the Menocalistas, who cared not a whit for the abstract justice of the Dodds Plan, it looked as if the Government was merely calling in another U. S. adviser to justify its disregard of the law. Promptly they withdrew from the election...