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...have to go East to prove it. Last week, after Washington's junior varsity and freshmen had beaten the East's best, seven varsities pulled out on the calm Hudson to row four miles down stream. Of the Eastern crews-Columbia, Cornell, Navy, Penn and Syracuse-Cornell, heaviest in the race, looked best, but the two Westerners were favorites. In their own regatta, at Seattle last April, Washington had beaten California by three lengths but that was at three miles. California had a precedent to uphold. Its crews were Poughkeepsie winners "and Olympic champions...
...Naturally, it would fall on everybody," declared he. "Taxes always fall heaviest on the poor because there are so many of them...
...district. Backer-directors of Young Management Corp. are Lawyer George Gordon Battle; Milton Whately Harrison, a trustee of Manhattan's huge Bowery Savings Bank; Giles G. Healey, scion of Boston's onetime carriage-building family; and Howard Earle Coffin, chairman of Southeastern Cottons, Inc. and reputedly the heaviest investor in Mr. Young's latest firm. Eventually there will be only two 42nd Street investment counsel firms with the name Young in them, since C. W. Young & Co., having bought back Mr. Young's stock, is independent of the others, will soon change its name...
...President has had only a few years to settle in his own mind the content of a curriculum for modern minds (and those years distracted by what would appear the heaviest administrative and public duties). . . . Where are the clear and distinct ideas? . . . The aureole of unity characteristic, or supposed to be characteristic, of an earlier time has caught the President's fancy . . . and he is out to save the world from bewilderment upon borrowed material. ... Do we want clear and distinct ideas or clear and fruitful thinking? ... I can myself make nothing of this nostalgic preference save a diverting...
Brazenly the Turkish Government announced that if Germany was not punished for remilitarizing the Rhineland in violation of treaties, Turkey would proceed to similar violations and remilitarize the Dardanelles with heaviest fortifications...