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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regular practice will begin for the entire squad Monday afternoon in the Briggs Cage. This is the earliest start Crimson baseball has had in recent years. By Monday Stahl hopes to have his battery candidates well ahead of usual February form by dint of three weeks' drill last fall and another week's work beginning last Monday...
...European democracies all this looked suspiciously like the start of another frightening, methodical squeeze by the dictators. British stocks dropped, French bonds weakened, the Amsterdam market fell badly. The British Cabinet held a three-hour session, while British statesmen rushed about assuring their people that Great Britain would never, never give way to force. As the date of Führer Adolf Hitler's annual speech to the Reichstag approached (see p. 17), wild rumors circulated that the Führer would: 1) back up Friend Benito Mussolini in a Mediterranean showdown, 2) demand a redistribution of colonies...
...campaign to enroll volunteers got off with a typically British start, a mass meeting in London's Albert Hall, where 10,000 were addressed by Air Raid Precautions Chief Sir John Anderson. Sir Walford Davies, Master of the King's Musick, led a singsong, urged the audience to sing loud because the rally was being broadcast "and probably Hitler will pick it up." When it came to singing the Lambeth Walk, he insisted on more umph...
Potential pitchers and catchers will report this afternoon to Carey Cage to start the 1939 baseball season, the first under the newly appointed coach, Floyd Stahl...
...refugee students will start work here today as the second semester of classes begins, but the work of selecting the students who will hold the scholarships is in its final stage, according to the Harvard Committee to Aid German Student Refugees, and it is expected that the two or three successful applicants will be in residence here by next week...