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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, the vanishing of private business under totalitarian control is reflected by the index of the Bourse, which last week stood at 47-6, previous week 47.7, same week last year...
...colonial powers scarcely needed this landing, or the newspaper campaign introducing it, to inform them of Japan's ambitions in their spheres of empire. There had been previous signals: the peremptory seizure of Hainan, the occupation of the strategic Spratly Islands, the frank avowal of many a world-imperialist Japanese. Punctuating the European war as it did, the landing served rather to make the world review just what was still to be found in the treasure of the Indies. Were the outposts worth defending...
After the broadcast, Master of Ceremonies Fadiman undid another sheaf of questions, some new, some missed at previous sessions. This time, Physicist Bernard Jaffe knew what kind of fathead might properly be boiled in oil (a fish called a fathead). Composer-Critic Deems Taylor remembered what musical composition a baby's cry reminded him of (Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony). Catcher Moe Berg identified Garibaldi's Carbonari. Russel Grouse still thought the football team best suggested by an ocean was C. C. N. Y. (book answer: Tulane's Green Wave). Lillian Gish remembered her Browning better...
...upset fashion, traditional and typical of a 58 year-old rivalry, the Bulldog from New Haven snapped and caught short a fighting Crimson eleven this afternoon. As 55,000 fans were jarred to their feet, the underdog Yale team offset a series of previous defeats in one fell swoop defeating a determined but not yet developed Harvard Varsity Yale 20; Harvard...
...most improbable of all the possible Eli surprises for Harvard is a smooth-functioning running attack. Hovey Seymour has lots of individual class, but in previous games his mates haven't been able to give him much in the way of blocking assistance. The Crimson line appears too tough a barrier to allow any sustained individual scoring marches by Hovey Seymour so the Elis will probably have to go to the air to find scoring lanes. Fortunately for the Crimson, Hovey Seymour is not a passing threat...