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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest undergraduate sports captain to add his condemnation of the report to that of many others is Kim de S. Canavarro '40, captain-elect of Coach Jack Barnaby's squash team. Canavarro's main objections are based upon the contention that the Council's report would "make the coaching situation impossible...
Terbert H. Macdonald '40, captain elect of the football squad expressed the feelings of several athletic leaders when he declared that the Council's plan would "kill out interest in a lot of minor sports here at Harvard." He also mentioned the coaching angle (which proved to be a popular rallying point for opponents of the plan) and said that it would be impossible for a coach to spread his time over a group of House teams and do as good a job as he would on but one intercollegiate squad...
Howard P. Mendel '40, captain-elect of the soccer team, was decidedly opposed to the Council's plan and suggested a possible solution would be to raise all minor sports on the same status with the majors...
When C. I. O.'s Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman and two score sub-lieutenants went to Cleveland last fortnight to minister to the feud-fuddled United Automobile Workers of America, they hoped to apply not a cure but a poultice. To that end they had the delegates elect conservative, cooperative Roland Jay Thomas to the presidency and abolish the jobs of four quarrelsome vice presidents (TIME, April 10). Last week, to the dismay of Physicians Murray & Hillman, the delegates in winding up their convention wound the poultice into a knot...
...time the election was held last week, external pressure had molded the lump of lard back into one solid piece. Belgians were so frightened by what happened to an internally weak Czecho-Slovakia that they crowded to the polls to elect a Parliament of unity, moderation, stability. Most extremist parties lost seats while the moderate Liberals and Catholics gained. Socialists lost more than a quarter of their strength, and the fascist Rexists were almost completely wiped out. Even Eupen, Malmédy and Saint Vith, supposedly ardent pro-Nazi districts nearest Germany, voted 55% nationalist and anti-German...