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...Doul Rout...
...Cecil Combs, West Point's undefeated malletmen rode to a sweeping 12-4 victory over the Varsity trio Saturday, while the Jayvees retaliated to rout the cadets...
...resumed their own annoying chatter. Superintendent Lanham was not baffled. First windless night he planned to send out a squad of men armed with large, hydrogen-filled balloons on long strings. These would scare the starlings off the buildings, back into the trees. There his tin-can brigade could rout them back to the buildings. If he kept that up long enough, possibly the starlings' spirits would break...
...debt-ridden Chicago last week, Comptroller R. B. Upham reported that the city's five-year rout into the red had been halted, that a small counteroffensive back into the black had been launched. Issuing a preview of his 1934 report, he announced that, through tax collections, he had brought the city's bonded indebtedness down $11,000,000 from its $136,357,000 total of April 1933. Some $8,000,000 worth of bonds had been retired before their maturity dates. Chicagoans were grateful for thus saving more than $2,000,000 in interest charges...
...opposition in the Senate down to a historic low. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley had asked for a two-thirds Democratic majority in the Senate to support President Roosevelt. With a roar of approval the country uprose to give him what he wanted-and more. So complete was the rout of Senate Republicans that Boss Farley could well remark on Election Night: "Famous Republican figures have been toppled into oblivion. In fact, we must wonder who they have left that the country ever heard...