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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duck the punches which he is constantly aiming at his own head to convince skeptics that he is really not a dictator at all. Last winter, Manuel Quezon's shadow boxing took the form of a visit to the U. S. to promote the idea of advancing the date of Philippine independence from 1946 to 1938 or 1939. Advantage of this move from the point of view of President Quezon was that it would bring independence before the end of his six-year term. Disadvantage was that, by disrupting island economy even more thoroughly than it will probably...
...report which President Roosevelt should receive by next January. Meanwhile, in Manila last week, a few days before a typhoon caused an estimated $4,000,000 worth of damage on nearby islands, Shadow Boxer Quezon stepped through two characteristically fast rounds against his own plan for advancing the date of independence...
...team will have its first practice session at Lake Placid from December 26 to January 1 and will enter the Lake Placid meet scheduled for December 30. After this date meets follow one another in swift succession. The annual Harvard Race will be held on the Sherburne Trail, Pinkham Notch, on January 9 and will be an open race for all undergraduate members of the University...
...momentous day Mr. Pinkle was walking and meditating about his continuous failure to remember that his employer had a wife; thrice he had embarrassed his position and his employer by asking her for a date. So with a pathetic expression he picked a leaf off the berry-bearing bush whose branches intruded over the sidewalk. Something snapped in his brain. He liked pulling this leaf from this bush. He pulled another and another until he had a palmful. He resumed walking, putting one leaf in his month. The taste pleased him. He chewed on it for a while, ejected...
Howard R. Patch, '38, president of the Dramatic Club, has decided that the dogs must be present for rehearsal at an early date, in spite of the prospect that the remodeled clubhouse at 13 Holyoke Street will resemble a kennel. The problem of taking the dogs on tour has also to be faced. Accomodations for them can be found in Worcester and Northampton, but the housing in and transportation to Bermuda during the Christmas holidays presents many difficulties which still baffle the stage crew...