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House basketball's most intensive rivalry ended yesterday afternoon when Jack (Dead Eye) Eberle of Kirkland House nosed out his teammate. "Affable Alf" Conlin by 1 point in their race for individual scoring honors...
...Affable Alf" Conflin finally jumped into the lead in the Dunster game on a foul shot. But teammate "Dead Eye" Elberle stood over the black line under the basket, so the point was cancelled...
Most Americans have not heard of the babassu nut since September 1936, when Alf Landon attacked this "jungle product" as an example of the riffraff being let into the country by Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade treaties. It grows in Brazil and its oil, used in margarine, competed with U.S. butter. Alf's "babassu speech" was a major milestone on his route to Kansas. But last week the babassu nut came into...
...this war," Alf Landon charged, "regardless of what our part in it may be, this little group of New Dealers hope to establish, beyond repeal, their collective State...
...when the war began. Senator Tom Connally was denouncing the Nazis on the torpedoing of the Kearny: "This murderous and foul crime must be avenged"; Secretary Hull was saying again that this act proved Hitler's plan for world domination. The President was still being cagey, and Alf Landon was still warning about collectivism in the New Deal. Martin Dies was still finding Communists in innumerable Government agencies...