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...yard dash Edwin J. Selbert '35 broke the tape at 34 4-5 seconds. Second place was tied for by John Dorman '36 and Carlisle Abell '35. Milton C. Green '36, who transferred to Harvard this year from Cornell, came in first in the hurdles although he started from scratch. Henry R. Withington '35 was second in this event and Richard C. Hayes '36 took third place...
John J. Healey '34 put the 16-pound shot 45 feet, four inches to take first place in this event. With a large handicap of 10 feet, six inches, Edward L. Young, III '37 took second place, and John H. Dean '34, starting from scratch, was third. The second weight event was won by M. M. Reznick 1G.B., who threw the 35-pound shot 51 feet, 10 1-4 inches from scratch. Norman L. Cahners '36, and Paul L. Van Cleve '37 took second and third place respectively, both having handicaps...
...thing to bring the Navy up to scratch but another to keep it there. Therefore Admiral Standley last week paid a second visit to the Capitol to advocate the Vinson bill before the Naval Affairs Committee. That measure calls for 102 new ships (95 destroyers and submarines) at a cost of at least $380,000,000 to replace present ships as they pass the useful age limit. Promptly the committee approved the Vinson bill, sent it to the House for passage this week...
With the calm of a great surgeon, which he is, President Dr. Ramon Grau con tinued last week to sign breath-taking decrees in the small hours of the night. Scratch-the Presidential pen dismissed famed Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne, author of the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen...
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