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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also revealed that Albert Norris '27 will fill the newly created post of coach of University (varsity) debating. He is an instructor of Mathematics at Milton Academy, and has been debating coach there. David Horton 3G, former captain and coach of debating at the University of Washington has been appointed co-director. It was indicated that the co-directors would be in charge of the new inter-house activities. Final confirmation of their appointments awaits the decision of the House masters...
Both the regular guards are now engaged in stiff fights to retain their starting posts as the fast improving Dick Phister is close to displacing Endy Peabody and Don Wilson is threatening Dick Row's hold on the other guard post...
...Springs, Va. Back in Washington last week, Ambassador Saito, whose wife likens him to a tireless, leaping carp, was reported to have received an urgent Tokyo cable. Premier Konoye, stuck to find a Foreign Minister when General Kazushige Ugaki suddenly quit fortnight ago, requested Hiroshi Saito to take the post. General Ugaki. long on the outs with an army clique determined to add all China to Japan's control, re-signed when complete charge of the China policy was taken from his office, put in the hands of an army-sponsored China Control Board. Ambassador Saito, regarded...
Thirsting for travel, David Fairchild obtained a research post at Naples supported by the Smithsonian Institution. On board ship he met a rich, mundivagant Chicagoan named Barbour Lathrop, who became a friend and patron, financed a trip for Fairchild to Java. This was the beginning of travels which took him, eventually as head of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction, to scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from...
...ambiguous, hardbitten, adventurous undercover operator who is hunting fascist spies in Madrid. Its heroine is Dorothy Bridges, a beautiful, blonde, not very bright American girl who writes magazine articles and helps take Philip's mind off his work. Its action revolves around the capture of a fascist observation post which is directing the shelling of the city...