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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capitalist system. As long as capitalism lasts, war will constantly threaten. Whether students or any other group are for or against war makes little difference. Wars come irrespective of the wishes of those who must fight them. The basic cause of war today is the world-wide search for markets for the goods turned out by industry. He who would eliminate war must bend his energies to eliminating that which causes war. And so long as goods are produced for sale, there will be capitalists, who, whether they like it or not, must expand or lose out in the battle...
...immediate projects: a European tour for one-time Champion Max Baer; a European heavyweight elimination tournament conducted under the auspices of the Paris Soir; a series of indoor bullfights at his Palais des Sports, with matadors from Madrid. From New York Promoter Dickson whizzed off to Canada in search of recruits for the hockey teams he has popularized in Paris...
Harold ("Boake"') Carter was an obscure news commentator for Philadelphia's Station WCAU when he went to Hopewell, N. J. in March 1932 to broadcast descriptions of the frantic search for the Lindbergh baby's kidnapper. Four years later, with the kidnapper awaiting death at Trenton (see p. 20), Broadcaster Boake Carter and his brash news comments had grown to be something of a national institution...
Professor Coolidge's famous bell tower has been adorned since the end of vacation with a long slender ladder. Many students, marvelling at the sight, have suspected that perhaps the mysterious House Party was more rambunctious than had been anticipated; have suspected that perhaps a search was going on for a watch or cigarette lighter which had been carelessly lost on the tower. The Lowell House janitor, however, assures the CRIMSON that nothing more serious than a broken weathervane is responsible...
...plane droned up the steep pass beyond the tree line, its motors suddenly coughed. Back at once circled the pilot in search of a landing place. Before he could find one, his plane was caught in a strong air current, slithered downward, crashed in a fountain of flame on the rocky saddle between the two dormant volcanoes. When rescuers climbed up over the mountain flank, most of the 14 bodies were incinerated beyond recognition...