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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD YALE Pennson, gr. g., Aron Oresman; r.f. r.f., Bruce Doughty, l.f. l.f., Stevens Ives, r.h. r.h., Angleton Rousmaniere, c.h. c.h., Carton D'Autrement, l.h. l.h., Schlesinger Page, o.r. o.r., Carrington Murphy, i.r. i.r., Van Peursem Edgar, c.f. c.f., Hutchings Vorley, i.l. i.l., Erickson Mendel, o.l. o.l., Haines...
...hrer grabs off huge bites of Europe, Nazi agents on other continents are prone to have big ideas over the possibilities of getting some Lebensraum ("living room") in less populated areas of the world. Last week Argentines had a case of Hitler jitters when it was asserted by Noticias Gráficas, sensational Buenos Aires newspaper, that ambitious Nazi agents had presented their Government with a plan for annexing Patagonia...
...will probably pay for the lives of those who put them in prison while they negotiated surrender. . . . One might compare their lot to that of a bull, worn out by picadors, helplessly waiting for the matador to enter with a fanfare of trumpets to give it the coup de grâce. This war, which has been incredibly cruel on all sides since its commencement two-and-a-half years ago, seems likely to end in an orgy of cruelty...
...Third Republic of France, in 69 years of sturdy life, has had 14 Presidents. Of these only five have served their full seven-year terms-Emile Loubet, Armand Falliéres, Raymond Poincaré, Gaston Dou-mergue. Jules Grévy. Six have resigned. Adolphe Thiers, Marshal MacMahon and Alexandre Millerand quit under political pressure. Jules Grévy tried a second term, left when his son-in-law was caught trafficking in Legion of Honor decorations. Casimir Périer got disgusted with his job. Paul Deschanel went crazy, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train...
...automobile driving contest, driving 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) a day. In her teens she decided not to follow the family trade of writing, instead became an actress under Max Reinhardt. When the Nazis came into power, although no Jewess, she was divorced from her Nazi husband (Gustaf Gründgens, now head of the Berlin State Theatre), and produced a satirical political revue, Peppermill, in Munich, her birthplace. For this piece of audacity she had to flee Germany and her citizenship was revoked by Adolf Hitler. She met and married Britain's Poet W.H. Auden, like...