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...issue, personal and national: should Scot MacDonald. who up to last week had done no more than leave his Labor friends in the lurch (TIME, Sept. 31), now decree an immediate general election and fight Labor (i.e. Socialism) up & down the land as leader of a new "National Party," this to consist of the Conservatives and Liberals supporting the Prime Minister's "National" Government...
...teams have been practicing during the past week, the Harvard outfit having had daily workouts on the diamond on Soldiers Field. The Crimson contingent has however been hampered by the lack of men reporting and by the fact that two of its pitchers have left the team in the lurch because they have completed their divisionals. The Crimson battery will be composed of J. A. Marcus '31, pitcher, and Arnold Kowarski '31 catcher. R. H. Phelps '30, first marshal of the society who has been in charge of arrangements and is acting as captain, last night stated that at present...
Mayor William Frederick Broening of Baltimore got in the City Hall elevator, felt it lurch loose its cables, fall three floors. Both his ankles were sprained...
...Flung Huey, prognosticator par excellence, has been, located again, according to latest reports. The famous Oriental sage quietly slipped out of town last Friday leaving his public in the lurch and since his disappearance many rumors as to his whereabouts have reached Cambridge. One report was that he was seen sneaking around Wall Street late Friday night. Another, from Chicago, was to the effect that he was seen on the corner of 39th and Halstead, straightening out matters with disappointed Windy City fans who are still grumbling about the Cubs' defeat...
...stop have asked us to communicate with you stop please advise. Sergeant Curdle, Coast Guard." It gave a definite inkling of what might happen very soon. In fact Joe might well have quit then if it had not been that he was unwilling to leave his friends in the lurch. This year however he never signed a contract and though it was hoped that he might turn up late, the worst was feared...