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...defense is seriously impaired ... I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, pursuant to the powers vested in me . . . direct that the Secretary of War immediately take possession." This week, on the morning set for reopening, as tear-gas bombs began to lob through jampacked streets around the plants and violence began to spurt, soldiers with fixed bayonets marched into Inglewood...
Unless the Crimson suddenly snap out of it, and start a real hitting spurt, things look bad for the crucial Yale games, for they will have to face two of the best hurlers in the East in Ted Harrison and Captain "Smoky Joe" Wood. However, they have shown that it is possible, notably in the Columbia game, and the first tilt with Princeton, when, among a number of singles, they exploded with three triples, two doubles, and a home...
...thing he was sure of: "the permanent existence of ... a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society. ... We move on a thin crust which may at any moment be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering below. From time to time a hollow murmur underground or a sudden spurt of flame into the air tells of what is going on beneath our feet...
Shrewdest interpretation of the Russian announcements, as well as of recent Russian gestures in the Balkans, was given by longtime Moscow Correspondent Walter Duranty, now in Tokyo for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Wrote he: "What is really coming is a new spurt of diplomatic activity and negotiation between the two countries, for which the Soviet Union and Germany are now engaged in preliminary jockeying. The question involved is ... of closer cooperation and the price to be paid therefor...
...composed mainly of members of last year's successful Freshman boat, fell back badly at the start, but then successively overhauled the fourth and second shells. About a hundred yards from the finish they seemed about to repeat their upset victory of a week ago, but a last-minute spurt by Wilson's Jayvees sent them over the finish, victors by a very scant margin...