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...period, and Wyndham Hasler '34 managed to break the 1-1 deadlock with a tally only 52 seconds after the whistle. Samuel R. Callaway '36 and Duffey, taking an example from the pass combination of Benjamin H. Hallowell '36 and Albert S. Dewey '36, which worked well but in vain, slid the rubber down the ice, with Callaway finally sending it into the M.I.T. draperies after 4 minutes and 24 seconds of play. Duffey himself contributed the fourth score a few minutes later without the aid of his teammates...
...Schumacher," cried the Chancellor, "is the first martyr of the Third Reich. . . . We are confident that his death has not been in vain and that out of it will come what we long for. The murderers of this German soldier are not identified with the millions of our racial brethren across the border. If these, our brethren, could freely raise their voices they would solemnly disavow the murderers and the principles responsible for this bloody crime...
...been remarked of late by certain modern Tories that those who are today in charge of your national government are guilty of great experimentation-and they are right. The same suggestion was used when Englishmen, protesting in vain against intolerable conditions at home, founded new colonies in the American wilderness as an experiment, and when the Washingtons and Adamses and Bullochs conducted another great experiment...
Nazi war veterans in wheel chairs displayed the challenging placard: "German, hast thou voted Ja? If not, our sacrifice was in vain...
...smart for once." cried Jesse Jones to U. S. bankers when they convened in Chicago last September, advising them to sell preferred stock to the R. F. C. and earn a ''double blue eagle." Ever since then the R. F. C. has been trying in vain to persuade some big bank to issue preferred stock. Last week James Reader Leavell, successor to the Brothers George and Arthur Reynolds as head of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., decided to accept Mr. Jones's offer to have his bank sell $50,000,000 worth...