Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After saying the world faces "major disaster" if the rearmament race is not halted, and making what some Navy Leaguers thought was an oblique reference to efforts to get an Anglo-German aerial limitation pact following up the Anglo-German Naval Limitation Pacts of 1935 and 1937, Ambassador Kennedy declared that "the American people look forward to the day when the nations of the world will realize they must agree upon limitation and reduction of armaments...
...belated entrant and cheap plater in the world's newest race to rearm, which the Munich deal starting gun set off month ago, is the little Latin American republic of Panama. Disturbed because neighboring Costa Rica suddenly abandoned plans to ratify a pact settling a long-disputed 150-mile border between the two States, Panama's President, Dr. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, last week signed a hurriedly drafted bill providing $1,000,000 for national defense. Hitherto, defense has been an unknown item in Panama's budget. Most of the money will be used to fortify the northern...
Activity on the Charles will include the fall singles regatta early in November and Freshmen intramural crews will race on the morning of Armistice Day, Friday, November 11, for the Thomas W. Slocum Trophy...
Captain Roswell Brayton and Penn Tuttle, who led the field together in last week's race, and Dave Simbolt, a new-comer of this season, are the best bets for the Varsity. Other Varsity starters will be: Clark, Nichols, Gardner, Wing, Childs, McLaughlin, and Oldfather...
Author Coyle is against both economizing in a small way and centralizing in a big way. On centralization, he says: "We should remember the mighty race of dinosaurs that thundered across the earth, with their vast bulk, armor-plated hides, long teeth and peanut brains. When the climate changed they had no ideas....The best we can hope is to have as little big business as possible, and to keep the disadvantages of bigness as small as possible...." So New Dealer Coyle favors Government regulation of bigness by yardsticks, taxes, control of money, discouragement of too much capital investment...