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...they laughed at a light-hearted speech by Ivy Orator Bayard S. Clark. Then up rose Davis R. Sigourney, '15, Ivy Orator 25 years ago and a captain in World War I, to make the traditional alumni welcoming speech to graduates. Mr. Sigourney looked grim. His words were grimmer...
...finest farmland, and the broadest rivers. For a decade and more it had been criss-crossed by the trails of the pioneers--the Santa Fe, the Oregon, and the California Trails all began at Independence, just at the lazy turn the Mississippi. But now it was crossed by grimmer tracks. The Freesoilers and the Slavers were pouring in, boding no good for the future of this infant state. Only a spark was needed...
...that are not necessary; we must, if required, ration them in order that all may share and share alike." [Applause.] Mr. Chamberlain called the present stage of hostilities the "quiet of the calm before the storm," warned that Britain "shall have to face a phase of this war much grimmer than anything we have seen yet." He wound up: "In his recent message to the Pope, the President of the United States declared that only by friendly association by the seekers of light and seekers of peace everywhere could the forces of evil be overcome. I profoundly agree...
...Shanghai, Chinese patriots played the grimmer game of "shoot the traitors," killed Tcheng Loh, Foreign Minister in Japan's "Reformed" Nanking Government, a former Chinese Minister to France (1920-27). Like many of his colleagues, Tcheng Loh found Nanking too hot for him, some time ago took refuge in the Japanese-controlled quarter of Shanghai, leaving detailed administration in Nanking to his Japanese advisers. Even in Shanghai, however, Japan finds it difficult to protect her creatures. Tcheng Loh was the 52nd victim of political assassination in the Shanghai area since Japanese occupation of the city...
...Party?" So said Joseph Stalin in 1925. Last week scholarly William Henry Chamberlin, who for twelve years placidly represented the Christian Science Monitor in Moscow, threw Stalin's words back at him. In February's American Mercury Mr. Chamberlin went on to suggest things even grimmer...