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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past fall the net receipts from football amounted to $292,000 as compared with our total budget of $365,000. The maximum gate receipts were reached in 1929 when they totaled $706,000. The fall has been practically 60 per cent. Another fall of even 20 per cent would mean a serious deficit if the present rate of expenditure were continued, and a continued and sustained downward trend would seriously threaten the entire athletic program. With the uncertainties of the present economic situation, no one charged with the responsibility of the finances of this University can face such a possibility...
With a practiced finger on Europe's always uneven pulse, Oldster David Lloyd George this week diagnosed: "Ten days ago everybody was asking: 'Does this mean war?' The answer then was invariably: 'What do you think...
Instantly Chinese League Delegate Victor Hoo buzzed in to sting the Secretary General. "What does he mean by saying Japan now has no 'obligations'?" asked Dr. Hoo. "It is not for M. Avenol to interpret the Covenant of the League of Nations. In a wide sense he has ventured to contradict Article i, Paragraph 3!" This article provides that a League member may withdraw after two years' notice only if "all its international obligations and all its obligations under this Covenant shall have been fulfilled at the time of its withdrawal...
...audience sees it growing on Lawrence. When emissaries from the Foreign Office demand the note which the mysterious abductors have forbidden Lawrence to give up, it gradually becomes established that his daughter has become a trump card in a plot to assassinate a diplomat whose death may mean a war. Following the clue he discovers in the note, Lawrence goes to Wapping, tiptoes into a deserted church, finds himself trapped by a fat smiling monster (Lorre) who orders the little girl brought in. The company sit down to listen to a broadcast of an Albert Hall concert at whose crescendo...
...three feeblest of the nine teams in the league are omitted. To the argument that this arrangement renders meaningless all the games prior to the playoffs, league officials have a practical reply: it prolongs the season for three weeks, pleases enthusiasts who like to watch hockey games whether they mean anything or not. Results of the play-offs that started last week confirmed their reasoning. Watched by capacity crowds in five cities were...