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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then things began to happen, as a ripping sleet, hail, and rain storm hit the boats with the Crimson in the offshore lane. Up to this point the boats were rowing a usual race, with Cornell lagging with its characteristically slow start. The boats failed to emerge from the storm until after the race was ever, and at times they were completely obscured from the launches only a few yards away...
Under far more favorable conditions earlier in the afternoon, the Jayvees took the Syracuse boat for the second time this year by an expected length and left the Big Red Junior Varsity and Penn straggled along in that order. From the flying start to the finish the Jayvees rowed their own race and maintained a satisfactory lead over the Orangemen...
...optimists from the start, Milo Perkins & colleagues were moderately pleased by the early showing in Rochester. Of the 8,600 local Reliefers who received their checks, 3,900 had purchased stamps during the first three days. Total cost to them (for orange stamps): $29,026 to which the U. S. added $14,513 for blue stamps. After the first rush, stamp sales noticeably slackened, and Relief officials concluded that many of their clients would require much "education" before they would give up regular money for pretty pieces of paper. One in four of Rochester's WPAsters volunteered to accept...
...professional assassin whose Italian connections were carefully hushed. Two years ago British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugessen was machine-gunned and dangerously wounded by a Japanese plane. During the Spanish Civil War "pirate" submarines torpedoed British and French merchantmen. If an incident were needed to start a war, the world has recently had plenty of them...
Gene Towne, 35, is a baldheaded veteran of 15 years in Hollywood, where he got his start thinking up wisecracks for titles in silent pictures. Since he shifted to writing original screenplays, which his friends told him was a "starvation business," he has starved less than any writer in Hollywood. Seven years ago he teamed up with Graham Baker, a long-faced ex-producer who once fired him. The two rented a dingy $15-a-month office formerly tenanted by a masseur, bought a Rolls-Royce from a well-known producer down on his luck, painted TOWNE-BAKER SCRIPT DELIVERY...