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...first start was called off when Bob Coquillette, rowing at seven in the Leverett shell, broke his car within the 30 second time limit. Leverett, Kirkland and Lowell crossed the line in a blanket finish...
WASHINGTON--Top-ranking Administration officials tonight jubilantly proclaimed that the Renomination of Sen. Claude Popper, D., Fla., ardent New Dealer, in yesterday's primaries, constituted a blanket endorsement of President Roosevelt's liberal policies and a sign that the Chief Executive's personal popularity is not waning...
...blanket decree signed by Dictator Joseph Stalin last week ordered corrected some abuses typical in Soviet collective farming which have been fully described by Soviet officials who have fled Russia, have never been mentioned by dispatches from Moscow. Promptly the New York Times, which has been growing more & more aroused at the difficulty of getting straight news out of the Soviet Union, editorialized last week: "Once more the outside world learns what has been happening in Russia only when a Government decree stops or reverses a Government policy. The present edict forbidding further expulsions of farmers from collective farms...
...start May 2 in Manhattan. Three weeks ago the Department of Justice filed a petition to subpoena ALCOA's files on all transactions relating to its growth; seeking to limit the final trial to as few issues as possible, ALCOA promptly fought the attempt to make this a blanket case. Last week's hearings on this point, therefore, looked like the last skirmish before the trial...
...existing meteorites show no sign of containing viable organisms. Dr. Oparin also rejects the theory of free spores or other life-bearing particles driven to earth through interstellar space by impacts from radiation. He holds that ultraviolet or cosmic radiation would kill any such life particles beyond the sheltering blanket of the earth's atmosphere...