Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morris Sheppard of Texas, the gentle, whitehaired father of the late Prohibition experiment and diligent overseer of Senatorial campaign morality, last week went to the White House in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. News that President Roosevelt had secretly aided France in purchasing U. S. airplanes, revealed accidentally by the crash of a new Douglas bomber in California (TIME, Feb. 6), had upset and excited Military Affairs.* In the White House, President Roosevelt began to lecture Chairman Sheppard on his reasons for helping France, using background facts and confidential reports so arresting that Chairman...
...this was good news to France, the Spanish news that came from Italy was decidedly bad. Dictator Benito Mussolini has often promised that once Generalissimo Franco has his victory he would retire his troops from Spain. Last week, however, Virginio Gayda, Dictator Mussolini's journalistic spokesman, revealed that Italy has a far different kind of "victory" in mind than have France and Great Britain. What Italy meant by "victory," Signor Gayda cagily explained, was not only a "military victory" but "full political victory." Said...
Monday at 7:30 o'clock a new CRIMSON competition begins for all boards. Freshmen are eligible for the News, Photographic, and Business branches of the paper, while Sophomores may compete for positions on the Editorial and Photographic boards...
...establishment of a "pickaback scholar" plan at Vassar is much to be hoped for . . . As members of an educational institution we must surely recognize the benefits of this new plan and encourage its inception here. --Vassar Miscellany News...
...Indians were scalped in a skiing meet by the University of New Hampshire at a winter carnival in Durham, which isn't as serious as it seems because some of the Hanoverians were away at the Maine meet in Rumford. Then from New Haven we received the news that the Big Green swimming team had been ducked decisively 54-21, only taking one event. Not that Hall Ulen feels too happy over Yale's performance...