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...Roosevelt naturally conceives of the ship of State as a small yacht, steered by a hand tiller which, to keep the boat on a straight course, the skipper must shift as the wind changes. Said the President: A year ago when inflation threatened, the helm was shifted far to starboard. Last autumn, warned of a threatened deflation, the Administration put it hard to port. While his listeners were trying to calculate what, if anything, all this meant in terms of political Right & Left, the President made his main point: that to regard a shift of the helm as a shift...
Veterans of last year's crew present last night were Doughlas Erickson '38 at 6, John H. Gardiner '38 at 5, and John R. Clark '38, who rowed at 4 in spring races last year, and was shifted to the jayvees in the Yale race. Converted to a starboard oar, he and William N. Dearborn '38, number 7 in last year's Junior Varsity, are considered outstanding candidates for the starboard stroke position, filled by Paul Austin '37 last season...
...necessity, Franklin Roosevelt did nothing of the sort. In high good-humor, he held the first press conference of the week in the Oval Study next his bedroom where he told an audience of ten correspondents which tooth had given him trouble the week before: "No. 3 hold, starboard side." Informed that in Uvalde, Tex. Vice President Garner had developed a kind of "magic seed" which might make grass grow under the trees on the White House lawn, the President asked him to send for some. At week's end, he made his attitude even clearer. Leaving Congress...
...Love was so engrossed with his instruction of several green oars near the bow that he failed to notice the fast-approaching obstruction until it was too late. The crash resulted in a long gash torn in the starboard side, and the ship settled rapidly...
...Gather on B Deck about the starboard (the opposite of port) gangway. Passengers are advised not to throw pennies at the drivers, because once you begin, and Harvard man is smart enough to know you possess larger coins. You will be transported ashore in our own tenders...