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Automobile manufacturers often wish that they could attract the patriotic fervor to their products that shipbuilders and steamship operators do to theirs. If, for example, British Austin Motor Co.. Ltd. should be forced to suspend "Baby Austin" production the average Briton would not feel called upon to do anything about it. But last month when Cunard Line felt it necessary to stop work on its 73,000-ton No. 534, British patriots reacted as to a national calamity. Retired colonels, war widows and schoolboys sent in small sums to Cunard Line; the Government was put under pressure to offer...
That the Cambridge School of the Drama must suspend its activities at the end of the present term can only be regretted. Although the school has far from fulfilled the expectations cherished at the time of its establishment, it has offered a chance for study in a field neglected by the University. And the lack of cooperation which the University has given the organization is likewise deplorable...
Because the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported "on unimpeachable authority" that Depression might force Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company to suspend production next year, Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan's new board chairman, felt called upon last week to make his first significant speech from the throne. Rumors have had the Metropolitan so hard hit financially that it could not even finish the present season, its directors so dissatisfied with the conservative, practical policies of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza that they were just waiting for the expiration of his contract (April 1935) to appoint some such character...
...view of the present economic crisis the Phillips Brooks House Association decided at its last cabinet meeting to suspend the Thanksgiving and Christmas open houses usually held for students in the College. Accompanying this announcement came the statement that a special committee of the Brooks House Cabinet has been conducting a six weeks research in methods of unemployment relief...
President Hoover delayed the construction of three cruisers only after Britain announced that she would suspend work on two cruisers, cancel a submarine test ship and two submarines...