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...first ballot, Schroeder was tied with Washington's hustling, young (35) Fred E. Baker. On the second ballot, Fred Baker jumped into the lead. Then retiring Chairman Joseph W. Martin and the Committee's pugnacious publicist, Clarence Budington Kelland, got to work. In a two-hours' recess, they preached the inevitability of compromise. When the meeting was resumed, Candidates Schroeder and Baker walked down the aisle arm in arm, simultaneously announced their withdrawal. Mr. Spangler was elected by acclamation...
During the trial, the young officers and their associates were permitted to sound off for days about militant nationalism. At one point a defendant arose, accused the presiding judge of inattention and indifference to the prisoners' speeches. Far from disciplining the man for contempt, the judge called a recess, tried to talk things over with one of the prisoners, came down with judicial neuralgia, and retired in shame from the bench...
Christmas vacation will begin on December 20 and run through January 3 in all departments of the University, officials announced yesterday. The statement was Intended to curb rumors which said that the recess would not start until the 23rd...
Liberal M.P. Leslie Hore-Belisha, returning last week to London after Parliament's August recess, felt a new and better man. He was, said he, refreshed in body, spirit and mind. Also, to his satisfaction, he had confirmed two of his favorite contentions...
Meanwhile the plain hard work of the country was being done in many places with the aid of high-school boys & girls. In San Francisco, where it has been planned to have students trained as urban firefighters, high schools opened only to recess for a week after 2,600 students and teachers volunteered to help in California's desperately shorthanded harvest...