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...outcome of the season. Mitchell did declare that his present nine had "more spirit and the will to win" than any previous teams. By observation so far this year, Mitchell stated that there is no league club that is outstanding and that pitching throughout the circuit is weaker than usual. With only three Seniors in the present lineup, the squad should be just as strong next year...
Today is Army Day for Harvard, and the R.O. T.C. Field Artillery men will put on their show on Soldiers Field with the usual military fanfare of uniforms, martial music, and even gun firing, although this will be restricted to pistol shooting and shelling from the miniature trainer guns...
...present outlook is very poor." With this gloomy statement. President Walter P. Paepcke of Container Corp. last week announced his company's omission of the usual quarterly dividend. Container's first quarter net had plopped from a 1937 profit of $626,970 to a 1938 loss of $53,198. With a few exceptions the same sort of thing was being experienced last week by almost every other U. S. industry. Samples...
...usual for the U. S. to have a favorable balance of trade-i.e., to export more goods than it imports. In the first quarter of 1937. however, because of the 1936 drought there were unusually large imports of agricultural goods which gave the U. S. an unfavorable trade balance of $113,959,000. Last year there was no drought and therefore U. S. trade figures for the first quarter of 1938, released last week by the Department of Commerce, again recorded a favorable balance. What was more, the balance was a sizable $320,662,000. Reasons for this were...
Never in the U. S. history, says Author Barnard, had a man been assaulted in the press so fiercely and irrationally. The vituperation went on for months, increasingly hysterical, until Altgeld was all but broken by it. The usual report has been that Altgeld never recovered from this verbal bombardment. Barnard's account, however, is that after being dazed and bewildered, the governor suddenly began to fight with the savagery of a man who has nothing more to lose. When Cleveland sent Federal troops to Chicago during the Pullman strike of 1894, going over Altgeld's head...