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Observers pronounced the workout as the best of the year for the Harlowmen, and some of the gloom hanging over the Crimson gridiron camp lifted. Darkness and a heavy mist didn't dampen spirits as the Varsity ran through their plays with reckless abandon...
...Gloom prevailed in the Crimson gridiron camp yesterday with the announcement that the limit of Captain Torble Macdonald's participation in the Dartmouth clash Saturday would be the coin toss with Whit Miller of the Green...
...afternoon papers repeated under big black headlines. "It was intended only to plunge the peoples of the world into anxiety, as everyone will immediately realize, so that the campaign of lies of the English warmongers would find it easier to accomplish its dark plans." This plunged Germans into visible gloom, some weeping openly in the streets of Berlin. Thus in no uncertain fashion did the anti-Nazi Freedom Station show Adolf Hitler how jumpy were the nerves of his people, how desperate their longing for peace in spite of their great victory over Poland. The phenomenon of joy and grief...
...ardent Charles Mitchell, supersalesman of the boom years, said calmly, "I am still of the opinion that the reaction has badly overrun itself." Jimmy Walker, defeating Fiorello LaGuardia for Mayor of New York, asked that movie houses show only cheerful pictures in an attempt to brighten the general gloom. A world that saw full-page advertisements offering Manhattan apartments for $45,000 a year, and sable coats for $30,000 to $50,000-a world so jittery that a decline in U. S. Steel to $195 a share meant a panic-would not have believed that the national wealth could...
Italy. It was raining in Rome when news hit the city that Soviet troops were moving in on the rear of the Polish Armies. Quizzing citizens, U. S. correspondents met profound gloom, not from sympathy for Poles or hatred of Russia, but because Italy's precarious neutrality was threatened. Next week, asked Italians, would the Soviet Union claim Bessarabia that she lost to Rumania in World War I? Or the week after? What would Turkey do? Would she take what she had got from France and Great Britain and join Russia? Would there be an offer of peace...