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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Transitions from the sublime to the ridiculous in double feature movie bills are rendered rare by the persistent absence of anything which might be called sublime; paucity of the ridiculous is most frequent. Such a turnabout is accomplished by this week's program at the University by virtue of the highly vaunted nature spectacle, "Sequoia." One is always suspicious of these animal films because for some puzzling reason it seems easier to make the human part of Hollywood's performers behave in more convincing fashion than the allegedly lower species. The stars of "Sequoia" are a deer and a puma...
...Lehman Brothers all but 24 reported an increase in tax collections, basic factor in all municipal finance. Nearly one-half the cities reporting gains, however, attributed the improvement in some degree to Home Owners Loan Corp., which doles out cash for back taxes in addition to refunding mortgages. Despite frequent crises over piffling sums for relief, New York City's credit is now better than at any time in the past four years.* More responsible than Mayor LaGuardia's Fusion administration, which has pared expense and tightened the budget, has been a marked increase in tax collections...
...Eastern Mediterranean would pass to Turkey." Just to be sure, three British cruisers and four destroyers were promptly sent to the British island of Cyprus. Greeks in Greece, who know that their deposed King George II is a close friend of King-Emperor George V and a frequent guest at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, suspected the worst...
Other member of the permanent Hearst lobby is James T. Williams Jr., chief editorial writer for Hearstpapers. In the time of Roosevelt I he was a frequent White House visitor, as suitor to Daughter Alice. Now diffident and middleaged, he is rarely seen in the Press Galleries, usually meets his official friends over the dinner table in his mother's Anchorage apartment. His specialty is army & navy...
...because of some horse play that occurred recently. Water was thrown along with the usual missiles. It is not our purpose to approve horse play (although if it is not a too frequent occurrence it is difficult to disapprove). But why the measure taken to prevent repetition? Will the fact that there is but one entrance where there were two, lessen exuberance in the night lunch? Was there something about the atmosphere of the O entry passage that incited deviltry? If so, why let men go out that way? They may start a riot in the court yard any night...