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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...support in World War I, Britain promised India eventual dominion status. When India did not get it fervent Leftist intellectuals were vociferous in exclaiming "Never Again!" The big question last week was whether Nationalist India would or would not support the British war, and how much independence Britain would pay as the price of that support...
...cowboy must be a better-than-average bronc rider, calf roper, steer wrestler or steer rider. More than that, he must be willing to take a chance. A cowboy on the range gets around $40 a month-with "grub." A rodeo cowboy gets no salary at all. He pays his own traveling expenses, hotel bills, entrance fees (sometimes as much as $100 for one event). If he competes at calf roping, he has to pay the feed bill and transportation cost of his specially trained horse (even more necessary to a calf roper than trained ponies are to a poloist...
...agencies that helped pay the bill for Louisianians' fun was the National Youth Administration, which gave 525 L. S. U. students up to $25 a month. The man who handed out this dole was George C. Heidelberg, 60, supervisor of student employment, uncle of the owner of the Heidelberg Hotel, where Huey Long used to live. One day two months ago George Heidelberg hailed a cabdriver, told him to drive to a saloon. Said he: "I'll have to get mighty drunk to do what I'm going to do this afternoon." Three saloons later, Mr. Heidelberg...
...number of army aumƦniers was increased to 600. The navy quota remained the same; the air force got 30. Catholic aumônier general (chaplain general), commanding 500-odd Catholic aumƦniers, is Monsignor Maurice Sudour, Archdeacon of St. Denis, who gets a general's pay, wears a general's star. Ordinary chaplains have no rank, but a captain's pay, wear religious garb behind the lines, khaki at the front. By special dispensation from Rome, all Catholic aumƦniers and other front-line priests may hear confession, give extreme unction, sing mass...
From then on the Stahleymen were somewhat erratic, failing to reach pay dirt again until the third quarter, although they had possession of the ball about nine-tenths of the time. Worcester's only offensive drive in the entire contest came after the half, with a couple of end runs which accounted for slight gains...