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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Star four is the previously mentioned Miss Fitzgerald, who will be backed by Jack Hill's band. The Smoker Committee has been diving in and out of every dance spot in the section trying to find a band good enough to back the notables present. Hill's outfit, from the Little Dixie, definitely fills the bill. Fine rhythm, with excellent brass solos, and a tenor sax man that plays Lester Young (Count Basic) ideas all go to make up a very solid swing style...
Latest development in the stormy minor and Jayvee sports abolition issue is the recommendation of the Undergraduate Athletic Council, headed by Robert T. Gannett '39, that the Student Council sponsor a poll to find out whether or not its plans have secured general acceptance among the undergraduates as a whole...
...many of us the Student Council's proposal to abolish all minor and junior varsity sports came as a severe shock. Having worked hard to become sufficiently proficient in a minor or junior varsity sport to represent the fair name of Harvard, and then to find this sport abolished over night is more than a blow. Placed on a House basis, such sports as Cross Country, Lacrosse, Fencing, 150 lb. Crew, Rugby, and Soccer would greatly decrease in proficiency...
They shortly learned why. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins had advised Mr. Noble to find an excuse to show himself to the Press. Reason: Mr. Noble was about to become not only big news but a big figure in Hopkins' appeasement of U. S. Business. Ed Noble next day resigned from his $12,000-a-year job at CAA to take a $1-a-year job as executive assistant to the Secretary. With Ed Noble in mind, Franklin Roosevelt simultaneously asked Congress to create a new title: Under-Secretary of Commerce. Explained Harry Hopkins, greeting his Republican...
Inordinately ambitious, a weaver of grandiose political dreams, Herr Himmler might find war, if it comes, not to his taste. War might mean the rise once more to power of the old Prussian Army machine and a policeman's lot might not be so important in war as in peace. But war or no war, anything that might happen to eclipse or remove Herr Himmler's aging boss can be expected to be the signal for a dogfight for power between Herren Göring, Goebbels and Himmler. Herr Himmler, the youngest of the lot, does not intend...