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...custom of conferences will be continued this year, he assured the CRIMSON yesterday. To Freshmen he will be at home on Thursday evenings at "S plus" (his famous phrase used to be "S punet") and to upperclassmen on Wednesdays at the same time...
Minute Men. What was now left of Norway's bacon, was now saved by King Haakon's pluck, and by an old American fighting custom. King Haakon refused to countenance "Premier" Quisling, exhorted his people to fight. This a lot of them were already doing. Loyal Norse airmen, hearing of the Germans' approach, managed to spirit half of Norway's 100 military planes away to secret fields (frozen lakes). Loyal Norse soldiers, as they fell away from the shores of Oslo Fjord, man aged to blow up Selbergross Dam, main source of the capital...
...jute, tin, rubber, fur and whiskey buyers, the new rules made little difference. But for other goods, the de clining free pound was the same sort of mixed blessing as would be a reduction in U. S. tariffs. British custom tailors with clients in New York began calling attention to the availability of fine English woolens. U. S. fabricators, fearing increased imports from Britain, took alarm. The U. S. cotton market jittered as Bombay prices cheapened in relation to domestic ones. Alarmed too were some U. S. exporters who compete with Britons in foreign markets, especially when the British & Latin...
Breaking a custom of long standing, the Harvard Dramatic Club has decided to stage its spring play, "The Ascent of F6," with three student directors father than professionals, John Profit will be chief director, assisted by Samuel R. Sheppared '42 and Jervis B. McMachan...
...Congressional custom for Congressmen to oppose every tax bill and vote for every appropriation bill, all the while beating their breasts for economy in government. Last week the U. S. Treasury faced a legal limit to its spending, and Senate debate ran true to form...