Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House-seekers were completing some ten days of simultaneous stumping in the Midwest and one reason for the difference of spirit on the two political trains was the difference of reaction each got from crowds along the way. In part it was simply a case of bad breaks for Alf Landon. At Chicago he made his triumphal entry into the city and his drive to the Stadium in a pouring rain which drove even his admirers from the streets. When Franklin Roosevelt followed five days later he had a balmy night and the streets were packed. At Detroit when...
...lead to greater support of class activities, they will prove of lasting value. But if Freshman interest diminishes, the changes will work like New Deal panaceas--stimulating but not satisfying. In any event the way has been paved for a "more abundant life" in Freshman year, and the spirit of cooperation can make the innovations permanent and successful...
...yesterday's session was enlivened with a 50 minute scrimmage between B and C squads and the Jayvees. No men who played the greater part of Saturday's game was used. In this scrimmage, half offensive and half defensive, the general spirit of the squad was good and there was the same drive that has characterized previous sessions...
Schuschnigg suddenly struck last week, Prince Starhemberg found himself so weak that instead of calling upon the Heimwehr to rise, he told these mercenary troopers: "Do not become traitors to the Heimwehr spirit by offering any resistance to the Government." Easy-going Viennese called this Prince Starhemberg's "political abdication" and his easy-going Heimwehr submitted quietly to being dissolved, inasmuch as they were offered a chance to join up at similar pay as members of the new Dictator's own so-called Front Militia. These sweeping changes occupied Chancellor Schuschnigg the whole night. By dawn the Schuschnigg...
...mule rented for the occasion, provided a common meeting ground for Crimson and West Point delegates. Twice Jim made a circuit of the field with a Harvard cheer leader on his passenger list, apparently unconcerned that the enemy had boarded him. Perhaps the Navy goat will have more college spirit...