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Several dozen Frenchmen decided last week that no stigma of default should attach to them. They would pay their share of the $19.000,000 which La Pa trie did not pay on Dec. 15 to les yanquis. Seizing paper & pencil they divided the 480,000,000-franc default by the population of France, 41,000,000, figured that each owed the U. S. between eleven and twelve francs (about 47?), popped this tidy sum into an envelope and mailed it to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. Mr. Edge wrote letters to the several dozen Frenchmen, thanked them, returned their...
...first time in the 13 years of national Prohibition a committee of Congress last week took the historic step of proposing to relax the stern mandates of the Volstead Act. To trie Flouse from its Ways & Means Committee was reported a bill (H. R. 13,312) legalizing 3.2% beer?a product about as strong as that sold currently in good speakeasies. After long hearings and solemn consideration the committee had concluded that no one could get drunk on such a beverage, that therefore it was a non-intoxicant under the 18th Amendment. Ostensibly H. R. 13,312 was put forward...
Eight Freshmen made up the Fall 1933 squad and these men will report today to inaugurate Freshman practice. F. S. Nicholas was the outstanding man during the Fall practice campaign and he is depended on to be the mainstay of the Freshman indoor trie. C. M. Bliss, John Drum Jr., P. E. Dutcher III, T. B. Eastland Jr., J. T. Nute, St. John Smith, and Walton Wetten are the other seven men who are expected to turn out today...
...them. It was a different story altogether from the Dartmouth game. It was a new team, inspired by the return of the regular fullback, Harper, and under the leadership of a new quarterback, Wood, which showed marked improvement in its most apparent weakness, its defense. The much heralded trie of Cawthon, Bethea and Sauls could not produce any real offensive threat against the Crimson forward wall. Only on one occasion did the "Gators get deep into Harvard territory...
...regions which had been, or should be discovered, were bestowed as a free gift upon Ferdinand and Isabella. They, and their successors, were uniformly held to.be the universal proprietors of the vast territories acquired by conquest in the new world. * * * It was an opinion, perhaps as ancient as trie crusades, that the pope, as the head of the church on earth, had competent authority to dispose of all countries inhabited by heathen nations, in favor of Christian potentates * * * This high power being accorded to the pope * * * titles acquired upon the supposition that it was rightful cannot now be disturbed * * *." Mayor...