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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alka and Bromo have had plenty time to sooth your troubled brow. Awake and rejoice, another weekend is at hand. Hallowe'en and the Princeton aftermath fall on the same...
...there is no British censorship."* A distinguished British Innocent Abroad of the week was Miss Irene Mary Bewick Ward, M.P., a Conservative stateswoman accustomed to deliver to women's clubs in all parts of the world a lecture entitled Whether British Democracy Can Outlive European Dictatorship. Although she en joys the reputation of "always smiling," Miss Ward, M.P., for once looked grim after telling reporters: "I can assure you that I know absolutely nothing about this Mrs. Simpson, and I am telling you the truth when I tell you that I have never before heard her name mentioned...
...En route from Mother Britain to this outpost of Empire last week was a sailing vessel, the Royal Mail Cap Pilar, with a cargo desperately desired by its inhabitants. The rats, reported the master of a British freighter which put in at lonely Tristan da Cunha last August, had got completely out of control of the island's single mongoose, were devouring all crops, even beginning to eat the Bibles of which Tristanites own five to a family. Last week the Cap Pilar was gallantly sailing to the rescue with twelve alley cats...
Stricken with pneumonia following the Army game last Saturday, Woodrow Wilson, cadet halfback, lay in a serious condition last night in the Massachusetts General Hospital. His father, Lee Wilson, of El Paso, Texas, was en route across the country in a special plane...
...En route to Columbus Nominee Landon stopped for a rear-platform talk at Cincinnati's Winton Place station, asked the crowd if this were not "the most cockeyed campaign you ever saw?" Pointing to the number of times his opponents had used the phrase "red herring," he declared that the "great granddaddy of all red herrings in the present campaign" was the charge "that I have dodged issues." Thereupon Nominee Landon disposed of that charge by declaring that Prohibition should be settled by the states...