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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Holy Year pilgrims packing the Papal State under a scorching sun, Catholics were relieved to hear last week that Pope Pius XI is taking special measures to conserve and spur his strength. "The Holy Father, in cases where an elevator is not available, now uses a sedan chair," said a high Vatican official last week. "During the hottest weather, after receiving enormous numbers of pilgrims, he sometimes varies his abstemious diet, partaking of a little iced champagne...
Arms Dossier. France did have one more weapon to spur public opinion against isolated Germany: the famed secret dossier on hidden munitions and secret arming in Germany. All last week the French Press echoed with threats to publish this document which has cropped up before in bitter League disputes. Neutral observers doubted that it would be published. The document does exist. It is extremely detailed, but France cannot publish its full text without giving German authorities important tips on the how & who of France's military espionage. True in the main, there are also enough Gallic exaggerations and inaccuracies...
Broker's Tip's jockey was Don Meade of California. With spur and whip, he got his horse up to Charley 0 and passed him, went for a narrow opening between Head Play and the rail. For a few moments in the last furlong of the mile and a quarter distance the crowd saw the two of them locked together at close quarters, their jockeys' boots rubbing. As they reached the finish still jammed together at the rail, in the immense uproar of a crowd that wanted the Bradley horse to win, Broker...
...Busch tradition of generosity (generosity is made of rubber: one of his servants died in 1929 and left him $19,000). Somewhat high-eyebrowed by some of St. Louis' more snobbish socialites, the Busches never got into the St. Louis Country Club, but started their own Bridle Spur Hunt Club which developed a swankier waiting list. August's son. August Jr. is vice president of the company but August himself is still the sidewhiskered patriarch of U. S. beer, hurling to the last his verbal thunderbolts at Prohibition. While Missouri had the greatest brewery...
...English A-1 is born by the college as a whole. If this seems too extravagant a proposal, they should be allowed to take one of the more advanced introductory courses in English, such as English A-2, 79, and 28. This plan might well serve as an additional spur to entrance candidates in preparing for their English examinations. But perhaps this is a problem whose solution is best left to Lehman Hall...