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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tides in Men. It used to be that when U.S. citizens aged, they had earned and saved their competence, or their kin kept them. The New Deal changed all that. The New Deal quoted technologists to show that the enormous and soulless modern industrial machine (about which Engineer Herbert Hoover used to worry) throws oldsters on an "economic scrap-heap." Like the New Deal Mr. Downey had an inspiration to do something on behalf of what he calls, for campaign purposes, "our senior citizens." It came at a very timely hour when far cannier politicians were beginning...
...Nazis shouted "Pfui Innitzer!" and "Hang the black dog!" during a furious speech by Nazi Commissioner Josef Bürckel. Calling the Cardinal a friend of Jews, burly Herr Bürckel declared that negotiations with the Catholics to settle the matter of religious schools and seminaries-hitherto kept secret-were definitely off. Cardinal Innitzer switched off his radio, retired to his chapel to pray...
...Freshmen, however, were not so blessed. Dartmouth was here strong, winning first, second, and fourth places. In all, the Indians kept the score down to 27, while Harvard was second with 41, and New Hampshire on the end with 55. Robert Jay, who brought a third place to the Harvard Freshmen, was elected captain following the race
...weather man confidently predicted fair and cold, the reverse of usual Dartmouth weather for the clash. Meanwhile the mackinawed men from the hills of Hanover kept pouring into Harvard by the twos, threes, fours, and squads. The curtain rises
With practice moved up until 4 o'clock, Stahley has kept his diminished squad at work until 6 o'clock for the past two evening. The Andover team which the Crimson will play on the enemy field, has won two games, Northeastern Freshmen and Bowdoin Junior Varsity, while losing to Yale...