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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field headquarters in Poland, Adolf Hitler last week retorted to Great Britain's effort to strangle him economically. He signed a contraband list virtually identical with the British list, for a counter-blockade at sea of war munitions and other supplies destined for Allied ports in neutral vessels. With none of his Navy except perhaps 25 submarines outside of the Baltic, this action was a fairly empty gesture except as it affected Scandinavian shipping. First to feel it was Sweden's paper-pulp industry, whose big customers are British newspapers (see p.19...
This week the Ministry of Economic Warfare published a Black List of 278 pro-German persons and companies throughout the world with whom British merchants and shipowners are forbidden to do business, subject to heavy penalties...
This year at Forest Hills, with Don Budge a pro, the seeded list for the national lawn tennis singles had mostly sophomores instead of Titans-listless Davis Cuppers Bobby Riggs and Frank Parker; Joe Hunt, Jack Kramer, Don Mc-Neill, Gil Hunt, Elwood Cooke. The foreign seedings might as well have stopped with Australians Jack Bromwich and Adrian Quist...
...truly representative national competitions in U. S. athletics is the National Amateur Golf championship. This year, in its 28 sectional qualifying tournaments, 831 silver-spoon and rusty-putter golfers in all corners of the U. S. strove for the 171 places in last week's entry list at Chicago's North Shore Country Club. The National itself is one of the toughest grinds going-two qualifying rounds of medal play to cut the field to 64, four rounds of 18-hole match play to determine the semifinalists, then 36-hole semifinal and final matches. Bobby Jones...
Last year there were only eight Nieman Fellows and, with 12 now on the list, the number of dinners has been cut from 30 to 20. Chosen from 209 applicants in 39 states, the 12 Fellows this year will be studying mainly fields relating to history, government, and economics...