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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made to maintain the value of the ruble in Russia at 20?,* the State further decreed last week: 1) that all "Torgsin Stores'' which have sold goods in Russia for foreign currency exclusively are abolished as of Dec. 15; 2) that all foreign tourists, who have hitherto been discouraged by every means from the use of rubles (for fear they might have got them at "black bourse" rates), are from now on compelled to make all purchases in Russia with rubles bought at the State Bank...
When the swimming squad abandoned the special exercise room yesterday afternoon, where for two months it has labored under the sadistic direction of coaches Ulan and Muir, it found few of the distractions which hitherto have haunted its informal practices in the pool. The hordes of frolicsome, long-haired youths had been banished; and there was the immediate prospect that the terrifying waves which were dashing against the sides of the tank might be shortly stilled. Lane markers, similar to those used in the Intercollegiate here last year, are calculated to subdue the mightiest billow that the most energetic candidate...
...been turning New England barns into lime-lit slices of Broadway and the Village are now moving into serious winter activity in the cities. On the rising crest of this wave the Associated Actors Theatre has moved into the Peabody Playhouse to offer Boston a three week run of hitherto little known plays...
Thus Adolf Hitler, with the crushing kudos of sheer Might, may repress the hitherto irrepressible Winston Churchill. Now bent on figuring in the Story of Mankind as a kind, gentle figure, the Realmleader is currently being snapped by Nazi cameramen in poses which approximate those of the U. S. baby-kissing politician...
...colleges were about to close for the summer, the subscriptions have been mostly from non-collegiate sources; it is therefore hoped that, gratifying as the response hitherto has been, it will, now that the colleges have opened again, soon be augmented in a substantial degree...