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...Washington this week, the 24th Special Session of Congress in U. S. history convened under circumstances to which Senator Ashurst's remark was peculiarly pertinent. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt last month called the Session to deal with a five-point legislative program, the U. S. was, relatively speaking, economically content. The five weeks since have been just long enough to include the first serious decline in U. S. business since 1933. To the notable opportunities for controversy already foreseen for the special session, the slump added another. This week, when Vice President Garner in the Senate and Speaker William...
...speech. But his objections to the warmed-over panacea are sound. Liberty Leaguer Shouse wins the same commendation by essentially the same stand. And Herbert Hoover continues to refurbish his badge of integrity, on the approved plan of denouncing Roosevelt. There is no need to be duped by the five-point system he would substitute for the President's latest nonsense. A glance at the propositions indicates their pure and simple anti-Rooseveltism. So far there has been little danger of the Republicans' obscuring what they oppose with what they favor. And if the President continues to dish...
This year's team ran much closer meets, ekeing out a bare five-point victory over Yale and Princeton in the H-Y-P meet. The decisive factor which made Harvard's hopes look bright for the Intercollegiates, however, was the practice which they received on the hilly Brookline Country Club...
...floor of the incongruously elegant Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. His big frame draped over a front-row chair whence he could easily address barbed asides to President Noyes on the platform. Lawyer Neylan let a potent "lit tle fellow" open his attack for a five-point program. The little fellow was youthful J. Noel Macy, publisher of New York's Westchester County papers...
With two spectacular plays late in the second period, the Princeton rugby team successfully overcame a five-point Harvard lead to win from the Crimson fifteen 6-5 at Soldiers Field Saturday. D. W. Meiklejohn 2G, making all Harvard's scores, was the outstanding player on the home team...