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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clark, a one-man aquarium today tipped the scales at 158 before he started last night, and he scaled off afterwards at 165 as excited friends cheered this newest champion to the echo. He masticated the fish one by one and took less than ten minutes to do the entire job, pausing only momentarily between poissons to suck at oranges...
Rusty Greenhood took fourth place in the high-board dive, repeating his low-board performance, and was the only Harvard man to place in Saturday's events. Al Patnik of Ohio State won the three-meter test with 161.32 points, an incredibly high total, and was more than 32 points ahead of his teammate Earl Clark. Hal Benham, of Michigan was third...
...forcefully worded this week, that the U. S. did not and would not soon recognize Czecho-Slovakia as part of Germany. Minister Wilbur Carr was told to close his legation in Prague, come home. But other branches of Franklin Roosevelt's Government had to face facts. They took steps which not only recognized Adolf Hitler as CzechoSlovakia's new ruler but dealt him backhand blows...
When Adolf Hitler took over Austria, his Ambassador in Washington, Hans Dieckhoff, quietly took over the Austrian Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue without protest from popular Austrian Minister Edgar Prochnik. Last week Dr. Hans Thomsen, German Chargé d'Affaires (who in the continued absence of Herr Dieckhoff is Adolf Hitler's No. i man in the U. S.), received orders to take over the building standing right next door to the late Austrian Legation-the Legation of Czecho-Slovakia. He ordered two secretaries to go over and take possession. After they left he rang...
...fought valiantly with the Russian armies* and under General Allenby in Palestine. He had just been talking to the State Department, which next day had something of its own to say about the rape of Czecho slovakia (see p. 11). He told Dr. Thomsen with urbanity that he ordinarily took no orders from Adolf Hitler...