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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Entente" (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia) and Poland. They understood from France, their great ally, that she had gouged out of the Pact all possibility that it may lead to revision of their frontiers or rearmament of their neighbors (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria) but in diplomacy no move is more frequent than the double-cross. With pulses thumping, the little diplomats listened while Premier Mussolini did his best (amid deafening Senatorial Vivas) to make Il Patto a Quattro sound important. "The war chapter is closed!" he shouted and loudspeakers made all Rome reverberate. "Without imbecile optimism . . . we can prophesy that...
...race, twice reduced to a snail's pace while wrecks and bodies were being removed, was exciting because of a new rule forbidding cars to carry more than 15 gallons of fuel-to cause more stops for gasoline and thus insure frequent changes in the lead. Bill Cummings took the lead first, lost it to Fred Frame, last year's winner. Frame was eliminated when he crashed the wall (without injury). "Babe" Stapp of Los Angeles shot ahead but, hoping to increase his lead by not stopping for gas, came to a dead halt when his tank went...
...amazement of racing observers, Winner Meyer set a new record despite the frequent refuelings and track-clearing delays. His average speed was 104.162 m.p.h. as against the record of 104.144 set by Frame last year. Meyer's car was a Miller special which he rebuilt for the race, sponsored by Tydol Oil Co. Meyer now ranks with Tommy Milton (victor in 1921 and 1923), the only men to win the race twice...
...Truth Behind the News," by Margaret Gilman, is a denunciation of the tabloid school of journalism. The attacks on this particular form of literary prostitution have been too frequent in recent days for this addition to the fold to be startling in its addition to the fold to be startling in its originality; nevertheless; it is interesting, and piques the intelligence through its violence. "A Housewife Looks at Advertising" is an article of the same class, though on a subject not quite so hackneyed; due of course, to the dependence of most periodicals on their advertising this fester has received...
Following the custom inaugurated by Eliot House this spring, Leverett House will present its first play in the House Dining Hall Monday night at 8.30 o'clock. The play, "Ten Nights in a Barroom," is a typical temperence melodrama of the bygone days and involves much bloodshed and frequent Carrie Nation tactics in its denunciation of drink and the terrors that it brings to the home. All members of the University are invited, and any lady accompanied by an escort will be admitted...