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...York, March 16--Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, NRA administrator, and members of the auto code authority will confer here tomorrow in an effort to avert the threatening strike of 100,000 men in the industry expected Wednesday...
...amount of time which can be salvaged for research and tutorial work by an intelligent pruning of the dead wood of the course system will not be sufficient to give the balance Mr. Conant desires. But it might serve to avert a serious crippling of the tutorial system...
Realizing that it must buckle down and win a few games to avert a highly disgraceful record, the Crimson quinter will take the floor against a powerful Providence College five at the Indoor Athletic Building at 8 o'clock tonight. Providence is one of the strongest teams in New England, having shown its worth by defeating Yale 35-32 in December...
...German question as the one most likely to arcuse interest in France which would be sufficient to divert public opinion from the Stavisky scandal. For years this has been a time honored method in French politics; unfortunately, it has been generally unsuccessful; in 1830 it came too late to avert the collapse of the monarchy, and in 1840 it merely caused the fall of the government and came near to starting a general European war. I think that if M. Doumergue's artifice succeeds it will be not because it is an essentially clever move but simply because the French...
...triumph of the ideas of Dollfuss; if anything at all is to be done to arrest the further advance of the Nazis into Austria it must all too obviously be accomplished under a form of government that is, in essence, dictatorial, for any other sort is too unwieldy to avert the danger which now threatens. Unfortunately, the balance in Austria is so even that neither the Viennese socialists nor the Heimwehr can feel sure of any permanent success. Since this is the case, the cause of the Nazis has been considerably strengthened, and if a purely nominal Fascist government...