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After a sensational three-month spurt President Roosevelt's recovery program was slowing down last week. Farm prices had sagged from July highs, leveled out flat. September business was lagging behind August. NRA had yet to produce its miracle of re-employment. Public works made more headlines than new jobs. Banks were still tight-fisted on credit. Labor troubles pocked the land. Price rises due to NRA tended to cancel out A. A. A. gains in farm purchasing power. President Roosevelt was being bombarded with redoubled demands to turn to direct currency inflation as the one quick, sure means...
...across the line first. At the first turn in the 7-mi. oval course Miss America X swerved past him. Thereafter Gar Wood patently tantalized Scott-Paine. Miss Britain III, leaping from the water every half mile, would inch up on Miss America X. Miss America X would spurt ahead, then relax. Neither boat broke records Miss America X averaged 86.937 statute m.p.h., Miss Britain III 85.789. But Scott-Paine was only 22.33 seconds behind Gar Wood at the end and that was the nearest Gar Wood has let any contender approach him in the Harmsworth Cup races...
Despite the amendment's spurt in the last six months it looked last week as though Mrs. Kelley's goal, once so remote and so futile, was destined to be achieved faster and better by voluntary code agreements in Washington under the pressure of an emergency than by the cumbersome constitutional method. If so. the children of the nation can thank the Depression for setting them free...
...Jayvee shell took an early lead from the Varsity, but was soon overtaken, and remained a length behind as far as the Harvard Bridge, where the Varsity placed a comfortable sheet of open water, now rough, behind it. The effectiveness of what would otherwise have been a fine Jayvee spurt at the finish was spoiled through the unaccountable disappearance of the coxswain's whistle. It is rumored that the Varsity crew was responsible for its removal...
After an initial spurt by Tech which gave them a temporary lead, the Tiger cubs were able to walk away with the Freshman event at a steady beat of 32 which kept widening the gap of open water behind them until they were victorious over Tech by four lengths, and over Harvard by five. The respective clocking for the race, which was over the 1 3-4 mile course, are as follows: Princeton, 9 minutes, 19 seconds; M.I.T., 9 minutes, 32 1-5 seconds; Harvard, 9 minutes, 35 seconds...