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...morning recess (10:30), the children took their dinner pails out of closets, munched fruit and passed around popcorn They also put potatoes in the stove to cook for lunch. Johnny went out to the well to fetch water and Ralph to the shed for coal (Miss Campbell lets her boys take turns at these chores, pays them 15? week.) Then boys & girls went to play kickball (like baseball but played with a football) in the yard...
Although only a transitional sport to bridge the gap between the fall House athletic program recently completed and the winter sports after Christmas recess, indoor baseball will draw full teams from all the Houses, Samborski predicts...
...meantime the Faculty will convene this afternoon after a three weeks' recess for the fourth of a series of special sessions begun early last month. Debate at these meetings has centered on tenure and related problems...
Temporarily throttled while the national focus was on the Senate, the House watched carefully, dug out from their mail only to recess again. But while nothing has ever hurried the tempo of the Senate, the Administration was ready to try. Key Pittman convened the pro-repealers among his Foreign Relations Committee steadily over the weekend, came to a full committee meeting Monday with a tightly knitted bill sharply defining U. S. neutrality, generally limiting the President's powers, but re-establishing the cash-and-carry system for trade with belligerents, except that go-day credit supplanted the cash phrase...
...Japanese further argued Chinese currency should be declared valueless. But this-since it would be granting de facto recognition of Japan's ascendancy in North China-Sir Robert at first refused to do on the insistence of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Last week he reconsidered, then declared a recess while "awaiting further instruction" from London...