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Members of the faculty of the Law School, acting as individuals, have signed recently a "round-robin" protest against the proposed changes in the Federal judicial system, particularly in reference to the alteration of the Supreme Court...
...long-legged Maribel Yerxa Vinson: the North American women's figure skating championship, held by Canadians since 1928; in Boston. Second place went to Toronto's Veronica Clarke, first place in the men's championship to Toronto's Montgomery Wilson. Seventeen-year-old Robin Lee failed to enter because of a knee injury sustained while he was winning the U. S. championship last month (TIME...
...nations reached the end of five months and seven days of bickering, adopted formally an international ban on the entry of further volunteers and munitions into Spain, agreed to set up land and sea patrols to isolate the country. Dictators Hitler and Mussolini joined in this round robin of Peace and Neutrality. "They now believe," explained the New York Times's Frederick T. Birchall, that Franco "has enough . . . help from outside to enable him to become master of Spain." Said the Earl of Plymouth, patient chairman of the Non-Intervention Committee: "Our work has not been in vain...
...South, for basketball purposes, is divided into two conferences: Southern, which includes colleges in most of the Atlantic Coast States, and Southeastern, which includes colleges in the deep South and the Mississippi Valley. In each the championship is decided, not by the round-robin of scheduled games, but in a post-season tournament among the Conference leaders. Last week Washington & Lee beat North Carolina 29-to-19, a game that was important since both are sure to be in the Southern Conference tournament at Durham, N. C. March 5-7. Southeastern Conference's major game of the week...
...clock, with twenty contestants competing, the following were chosen to represent the Union Debating Society in the subsequent debates scheduled: Jerome L. Gilbert and Rodman Gilder, Jr., Holy Cross, here, March 3; Victor C. Vaughan, 3rd and Paul W. Cherington, Boston College, March 8, away; Phil C. Neal and Robin Scully, Exeter, March 12, away; and Garfield H. Horn, Louis Hartz, and Jacob J. Kaplan, Boston Latin School, March 19, away...