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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anglo-Canadian rearmament program was inaugurated last week as the John Inglis Co., Ltd. in Toronto set to work on an $8,000,000 order for 12,000 machine guns. Seven thousand of the guns, light-weight Brens adapted from Czechoslovakia models, will be distributed to the Canadian militia, 5,000 will be shipped to Britain to aid the mother country in her frantic scramble to rearm...
During a five-hour session today the Yale corporation refused to grant the petition signed by a thousand graduates to leave the historic "fence" intact. Not a single member of the corporation favored granting the petition. The decision has caused much disappointment among the undergraduates, and some of them are decidedly indignant...
With over a thousand Yardlings and Upperclassmen expected, the 1941 edition of the annual Freshman Smoker will begin at 9:30 o'clock tonight in Memorial Hall and will last around three hours...
Second difficulty concerned negotiations with Hollywood's sex personality,' Mae West. Although she expressed a great desire to look the University over, her manager quoted a "special price" for her appearance at the Smoker, three thousand dollars...
...idea of maladjustment can easily be distorted through overemphasis by doctors and deans, and despite their worries America is against losing its tradition of Emersonian self-reliance. It is absurd to think that the University should be morally responsible for the fate of every Freshman, for to nurse one thousand mothers' sons can be no official...