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...initial tile at 2.30 o'clock, plans for House hockey which have been brewing for several years will finally materialize. Prior to this year, a great deal of enthusiasm had been registered by ambitious House punsters, but no convenient rink could be found. Shortly before the Christmas recess, Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of Intramural Athletics, offered a solution by announcing that games could be arranged either in the Garden or the Arena during the exam period, since there are few Varsity practices at this time...
...bushy-browed Speaker Byrns, a pink carnation in his lapel, whammed down his gavel, brought 366 magpie Members of the House to comparatively silent order. Democratic Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, ill throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver his address on the State of the Union to a joint session of Congress that night. That address was also to be broadcast at the best radio hour...
...Over the recess the team will go to Lake Placid, to play three games against Clarkson and one against the Lake Placid Club. During the first week of the reading period the Crimson meet McGill and Princeton...
...aside because he had not been properly indicted. Decisions completed. Chief Justice Hughes ordered the clerk to give out a list of court orders. Denied was Bruno Richard Hauptmann's request for a review of his conviction of murdering the Lindbergh baby. After a 30-minute recess Court Solicitor Reed arose, described the case as the Government saw it. Liberal as well as Conservative Justices took a hand at questioning him. Asked Conservative Justice McReynolds: ''Who fixed the [processing] tax, Mr. Solicitor?" "Congress fixes the formula," Mr. Reed read aloud the language of the law. "The farmer...
...successive uppings by the Bank of France of its discount rate failed to halt the flow. Instead it quickened. The radical parties opposing M. Laval redoubled what they call their politique du pire-tactics "to make everything worse & worse." As the Chamber of Deputies met after a five-month recess last week both the Socialist Populaire and the Radical Socialist L'Oeuvre predicted an immediate, bloody "March on Paris" by French Fascists. "The plan of attack includes assaults upon the Chamber of Deputies and various Ministries," flatly declared L'Oeuvre. "In the early hours of the uprising...