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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that as it may, I am certain that the dear old man did not slip off "into the Founder's outstretched arms." No, no, a thousand times no! This piece of misplaced sculptural enthusiasm has one arm somewhat "outstretched," the other hangs at its side with a clenched hand holding a scroll. . . . Should a man by chance hit upon the one available arm its angle would chute him off into space. . . . TIME may be puissant but can it make a bronze statue move its arms to save a veteran...
...last week several thousand Floridians and visitors from the North repaired to a park on the shores of Lake Worth, between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. There they ranged themselves in specially-built boxes and bleachers around a huge central platform. On the platform bespectacled Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes squatted on his haunches in a circle of squatting Seminole Indians. Seminole squaws and papooses in bright beads and dresses were bunched around the platform. Loudspeakers allowed the spectators to overhear the powwow by which Secretary Ickes proposed to advance the Administration's policy...
...avowed pogrom was ready to burst. Once again, however, Nazi luck held. Just before the brownshirt mobs got completely out of hand Franconia's famed Jew-baiting Boss Nazi, Dr. Julius Streicher, decided that somebody had made a mistake. Though he has shrieked "Death to Jews!" from a thousand hustings, Nazi Streicher abruptly blamed everything on a subordinate official of his Brown House and manifestoed in time's nick: "Irresponsible elements have been spreading rumors that Jews had attempted to assassinate our Leader. In the ensuing excitement they demanded that Jews be punished by being beaten to death...
...give the "busy signal," i. e., pinch the man who is holding him and be released immediately. Able water polo players rarely do such a thing. Because water poloists are always extracted quickly when they sink, none has ever drowned. There are not more than a few thousand athletes in the U.S. capable of playing the game. There are 24 teams in New York, 18 in Philadelphia, cities where the game is particularly popular. Next to the New York Athletic Club, Eastern College teams are usually the best. The New York Athletic Club's water polo teams are coached...
...Forty thousand dollars will again be allotted to the Temporary Student Employment Plan for the next academic year, it was announced last night by Russell T. Sharpe '28, Secretary for Student Employment. This sum has been budgeted annually since...