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...daughter's fiance, but he struck his stride as a want-ad salesman, quickly became advertising and then business manager. In nine years the paper was in the black and since 1912 has made money every year, multiplying enemies but losing no ground when it deserted staunch Senator Hitchcock's time-honored Democratic partisanship to oppose the New Deal in the 1936 campaign...
Harvard Club members intend active support of Republican-Fusion candidates Fiorello H. LaGuardia and Thomas E. Dewey in the approaching New York City elections, according to a dispatch printed yesterday in the Herald Tribune, staunch partisan of Gotham's little mayor...
What the conduct of privileged youth is today will largely, perhaps crucially, determine whether this hope goes glimmering in the wreck of the American order, or whether it shall be upheld by staunch proof that men of special education and technical competence recognize their obligations to society and will fulfill them as men, not as children. They can riot if they choose, but their own rioting sooner or later will be turned against them. They may have fun now at public expense if they will. But it is fun that tempts fate...
...Mexico, meanwhile, Muralist Diego Rivera, staunch Defender of Trotsky, announced that should the Great Exile not be assassinated before or upon landing in Mexico-and this Comrade Rivera considered more than likely-Trotsky could take refuge in the Rivera home. Already, according to the muralist, four armed men have kidnapped the caretaker of his studio, beating him severely and pitching him out of their automobile "for refusing to talk...
Monday neither Dunster nor Leverett House produced a team for the scheduled game. Seven staunch men of Dudley held the powerful Kirkland team to 19 runs, while pushing five runs by the Deacons. KIRKLAND (19) DUDLEY (5) Carr, s.c. Moser, 2b 2b, Turesky Walsh, 1b 1b, G. Simon Howe, c Kessler, p p, Banner Feder, cf cf, Cohen Newbold, lf lf, Jacobson Marks, ss ss, A. Simon Davis 3b 3b, Bronstein