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...deficit of Franklin Roosevelt's administration. He was able to show that the National Debt had risen only 740 millions* the smallest rise since 1931. He could say these things because of: 1) some real reductions in Government over-head at the start of the year; 2) the greatest Treasury receipts since 1920, from taxes levied on business done in the most prosperous portions of calendar...
...London. Except for the Harvard-Yale football game, the greatest event of the year for Harvard or Yale men is Race Day at New London. It is not only the traditional boat race (that started back in 1852) that lures every alumnus who can get away for a day from the serious pursuits of life, but also the fun of wading through the broken glass in the Mohican Hotel and shouting long-forgotten nicknames through the narrow streets of Connecticut's famed old whaling port...
...Navy, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Syracuse, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and M.I.T.); 2) its boating had remained unchanged all season; 3) it had as stroke James Fletcher ("Spike") Chace, who had beaten Yale twice before, had paced only one losing race in two years and is generally recognized as one of the greatest strokes in the history of U. S. rowing. Yale had only two seasoned oarsmen in its boat, had changed its boating many times, had a less imposing string of victories: over Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Princeton, Syracuse...
...time was 20 min. 20 sec., a full 18 seconds slower than the upstream record which Harvard set last year, but the 50,000 spectators who witnessed the race agreed that they had seen one of the finest crews in rowing history and one of the greatest stroke oars of all time. Spike Chace, son of a Park Avenue physician, rowing his last race for Harvard, was the hero of the day. His name was bracketed with that of William ("Foxey") Bancroft (1878) and Gerry ("Killer") Cassedy (1933), the only two other oarsmen in Harvard annals who ever...
...some 1,500 square miles which includes New York City and adjacent sections of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut live 11,000,000 souls bound together by economic and social ties. Among their many superlatives, the inhabitants of this megalopolis support the greatest medical community on earth-814 hospitals and other agencies for care of the sick, which can hospitalize 70,976 bed-ridden patients at one time...