Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the Post Intelligencer did not say was what everyone took for granted- that the President would make the trip the occasion for a few major speeches en route, a personal investigation of the Northwest's reaction to the last few months of the New Deal. Closest thing to official confirmation of the Seattle Post Intelligencer'?, scoop that could be gotten last week was an admission that the trip was under consideration. But last week the President had no eastern appointments on his calendar after September 17, when he is scheduled for an outdoor Constitution Day speech...
Amid discord, one thing every United Automobile Worker could agree on, however, was that the first and biggest obstacle in their union path was Henry Ford. The delegates stamped and whistled when Wisconsin's labor-loving Governor Philip Fox La Follette observed: "Henry Ford is probably a nice fellow personally. . . . He just doesn't understand modern trends. He has his feet in 1937 and his head in 1837." Cried Homer Martin: "We'll say 'Henry, if you want to continue to make and sell autos in America, you'd better get ready...
Last week's decision to ship the entire Japanese Army to China meant but one thing: Japan had committed herself to speeding up the slow process of history many times repeated in-three milleniums. At Shanghai,- nearly 100,000 Japanese troops were already involved. The campaign could no longer be fought locally. A new field of operations had been opened and the great triangle between Peiping, Shanghai and the mountains on the west had become a potential battleground...
Three times a week is the minimum for sports the Freshman year, and no fee is required. When you become an upperclassman, you get socked ten dollars for the same thing...
Wightman Cup, The only thing that could be said in favor of a weak British team's chances against a strong U. S. team was that none of this year's British players was married and they would therefore, presumably, have no worries about absent husbands. True, two of the U. S. tennists- Alice Marble and Carolin Babcock-had sore backs and Helen Jacobs, in the year since she lost the U. S. singles championship to Alice Marble, had dislocated her thumb, torn a shoulder ligament and banged her knee with a racket. But pretty Kay Stammers...