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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boats. Since 1935 Alaska's $46,000,000-a-year salmon-fishing industry, which depends on salmon spawned in Alaskan rivers and caught as they return from the sea to the rivers to breed, has yelled bloody murder about Japanese fishermen operating offshore. When the Japanese Government subsidized a three-year "salmon survey" of the Bering Sea in 1935, Alaska fishermen maintained that Japanese boats were trawling with heavy nets in all seasons, would soon exhaust the grounds. Japan retorted variously that she was investigating the possibility of floating canneries, that her nationals were not invading U. S. waters...
...announced a 16-point program of Austrian economic rehabilitation. "Austria's economic reconstruction is the task of the Germans in Austria!" he cried. "Germany will furnish the necessary capital and strength. ... A year hence ask me whether I have kept my promises or whether you want to return to the Schuschnigg system...
Other men who may be selected to make the trip are Ed Behr, Lee Bird, Ben Ferris, Bill Flinn, Jim Sullivan and Bill Tonner. Hal Cleveland and Bob Scott are valuable members of last year's championship team who will be unable to go. They expect to return after vacation and should strengthen the team considerably...
...Selection Committees should endeavor to return to a fairer balance between athletics, leadership, and scholastic ability. Qualities of leadership are best developed through frequent contact with one's fellow men and through extra-curricular life in a great university rather than through constant haunting of a library. While it is obvious that high intellectual ability is essential, the recent overemphasis on this qualification and the tendency to sacrifice the other qualities which Rhodes envisaged are unfortunate...
...bill should have secured the dangerously small majority of seven votes can only mean that President Roosevelt has suffered a permanent loss of prestige in the congressional arena. This conclusion is the one to which the increasing independence of Congress has been leading for some time, and represents a return to that balance of power between the legislature and the executive which is the normal and healthy condition of American government; but it is unfortunate that this constructive trend should have been demonstrated by the tactics of an irresponsible opposition...