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...from Danzig's Nazi rowdies. Already drafted, this protest had been scoffed at by the Nazi orators from Berlin who roared that: "The League cannot consider protests from an insignificant minority!" Not insignificant was 40.1%. From London to Moscow this week European editors referred to "Hitler's heaviest moral setback since the Blood Purge." In Germany, after Danzig returns were known, no German of any prominence would comment. The official Press, obliged to rave at somebody, raved against Danzig's onetime Nazi Premier Dr. Rauschning who appealed last week for anti-Nazi votes. When Danzig Nazi gangsters...
...Londoners who view the boat race each year, Oxford is a sentimental favorite. Cambridge's monotonous victories are always due to "magic." This year the magic was stranger than usual. Oxford, with the heaviest boat in history (183 lb.), outweighed Cambridge 3 lb. to a slide. Oxford's 200-lb. No. 4, P. R. S. Bankes, who rowed so hard in practice that he broke five oars, was given an oar with a half inch less leverage and a 6-inch blade. Furthermore, by a sporting arrangement which U. S. rowing coaches would find strange. Peter Haig-Thomas...
...that theory Ontario's loud New Dealish Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn last week launched the five nine-months-old girls into Ontario politics, just when tallest Annette beat out heaviest Yvonne by one day for the honor of cutting the first tooth...
Socialist Thomas erred in one respect. Department of Agriculture and AAA officials kept their mouths sternly shut about it, but last week the plight of Southern share croppers weighed heaviest on their minds...
Steel is proverbially the heaviest of heavy industry but even heavier is that part of the machinery industry which makes the thunderous tools for the steelmakers-blooming mills, slabbing mills, rail mills, tube mills, hydraulic shears, hot saws, cooling beds, forging presses, pickling equipment, etc., etc. Companies like Westinghouse and General Electric share hugely in the construction of steel mills, for almost all steelmaking machinery in electrically operated, but the machinery itself is produced by highly specialized concerns. And in this subcellar of a steel civilization are two companies that together supply most of the biggest and toughest machinery made...