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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uvalde, Texas, a spry, bowlegged little man with a stubborn back-hair cowlick celebrated his 71st birthday by packing a lunch (including a hunk of birthday cake baked by his wife), rode off after deer. Six days late was John Nance Garner in bagging his annual buck; but he was on time at the hunt campfire, where he dished up his special concoction-"Son-of-a-gun stew," which supposedly includes a dash of everything...
...last gun was silenced and she was ablaze everywhere except forecastle and poop. Of three boatloads of survivors, two were believed captured by Deutschland. All remaining hands perished when, after burning four hours, Rawalpindi turned turtle to starboard and foundered. Another British cruiser, speeding to the scene, was too late to catch the raiders, who slipped away in stormy darkness. Search for them, said the Admiralty, "is continuing in tempestuous weather both night...
Chapter 1: The Wireless Set. Late in October 1939, clever Gestapo agents, posing as discontented Germans, managed to make contact with certain naïve British intelligence officers in The Hague. The British got to like their "friendly opponents," and soon gave them a transmitting and receiving apparatus containing three American steel tubes; and a secret code. The set was not so good; had to have some German parts put in. The Germans carried it back into Germany, and the Britons at once began sending in the closest secrets of their Government...
Hunt Hamill '40 will play the leading male part in the Dramatic Club's forthcoming play, "Too Late to Laugh," L. John Profit Sp., president of the Club and production manager of the play, announced last night. He stated at the same time that Henry Urrows '38 will serve as director...
Bollay declared that although it is now too late to sign up for the course, anyone connected with the University may sit in on the ground instruction lectures, which meet five times a week at 8 o'clock...