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...Berlin, sat down in the Mayflower Hotel's glittering main ballroom amid the flower of U. S. civic leadership. Around him were arrayed the mayors of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Duluth, Louisville, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York, Omaha, Richmond, Savannah, Toledo, Tulsa, Saginaw, Stamford, Lima, Joplin. Durham, East Orange, Amarillo, many another city large and small. Half a hundred strong, they were ranged at long tables before the speaker's stand, they and their aides and emissaries, their bulbous noses and their pot bellies, for another solemn, straight-faced meeting of the U. S. Conference of Mayors...
Finally all bishops present and the general Anglican Assembly were worked up to loud and prolonged cheering by the Bishop of Durham. "Jews are just as mixed a race as the Germans; they could hardly be more!" cried this Lord Spiritual. "This nonsense about 'race'-as if there were some poison in the ancestry of Judaism which must be guarded against- is sheer hallucination. It is preposterous! . . . We loathe and detest this attitude obtaining in Germany and protest...
Sharpest reversals came to undefeated, untied teams. A record crowd of 46,000 sat chilled in Durham as North Carolina's Tar Heels, odds-on favorites, were throttled 25-10-0 by Duke's already twice-beaten eleven. Smothered 2740-0 was Syracuse by thrice-defeated Colgate. Third leader to be toppled was Marquette, by Pop Warner's deceptive Temple team...
...passing hats and wheedling coins from bystanders, were good only when someone with a kind heart produced a windfall. Last week Daniel Jenkins sent Band No. 2 back to Charleston, where Band No. 1 would rejoin it, playing its way southward by way of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond and Durham. Daniel Jenkins also is soon returning South. "I ain't got long to stay here," he cackles. "But I'll carry on till Jesus calls me home...
...Durham this afternoon the Varsity lacrosse team meets the University of New Hampshire squad. The Crimson is favored on the basis of their previous record...