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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British pageantry was relied on to silver-line the cloudy fact that at this session of Parliament the last measures to insure a gas mask for everyone in the United Kingdom are to be taken under direction of Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare. This potent statesman who in recent years gave India her new Constitution then made "The Deal" with Mussolini and next placed the Royal Navy on a $525,000,000 Rearmament footing, last week showed King George and Queen Elizabeth the new type gas mask of which 45,000,000 are being provided. It encloses both nose...
...Atlantic City, N. J., Headmaster Frank Ely Gaebelein of Stony Brook (L. I.) School for Boys told a Methodist Protestant conference that little more than 25% of 49,000,000 U. S. young people have ever been in a church. Recent questionnaires, he said, showed that 16,000 of 55,000 school children had never heard of the Ten Commandments; only 2,000 of 18,000 students could name four biblical prophets, only 6,000 the four gospels, only 8,000 any three of Christ's disciples. Headmaster Gaebelein's remedy: "Revive the family altar and the reading...
...course the charge about the Police Department is buncombe of the sheerest kind. There has never in recent memory been a time when the Police Department was carrying out its daily tasks of protection to life and property with more efficiency, dignity, and restraint, and in the one or two serious disturbances during the administration of Mayor LaGuardia the police have demonstrated the ability to cope with ugly situations in scientific fashion, reducing damage to a minimum. Furthermore, every patrolman on the force knows in his heart that under the Fusion Government the only way to get ahead...
...form, and every Bostonian, of whatever political faith, should remember that in voting for Nichols he may not be opening the door of Utopia, but he is at least writing "finis" to a disgraceful chapter in the history of Massachusetts. This fact makes all the more deplorable the recent disaffection of a number of prominent Republicans in Ward 5. Basing their action on a personal quarrel of ten years' standing they have put personal sentiment before the good of the city in a manner which the average voter will do well to avoid. There is absolutely no evidence that Nichols...
Following are the men who have recently been elected to the Business and Literary Boards of the Lampoon as the result of the recent competition...