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...driving axles were introduced in 1929, discontinued in 1932. What made the new Cord exciting was that it incorporated front-wheel drive in a completely new design. The body is low and sleek with a rounded rectangular one-piece hood that opens from the front and is banded with vane-like "Venetian" (blind) louvers. Water and oil caps are under a cowl lid on the right, matching a cowl ventilator on the left. Front lights are retractable like an airplane's landing gear, disappearing into the fenders when little cranks are turned on the dash. On convertible models...
Alan Trent (Fredric March), Kitty Vane (Merle Oberon) and Gerald Shannon (Herbert Marshall) grow up together in England in time to have their already complicated emotional patterns tangled further by the War. Alan and Kitty love each other. Gerald also loves Kitty. Consequently, when he suspects Alan of spending a night in less fastidiously chosen company just before they sail for France, he goes into a rage. The result of this "out there" is a dangerous assignment for Alan, from which he fails to return. When Gerald gets back to England, he learns that the girl with whom Alan spent...
...Fundy at Passamaquoddy, Me. They declared that Maine's remote northern tip offered no market for the vast amounts of power which would result, that necessary power could be produced more cheaply from coal. But. when Maine was preparing to whirl its political weather vane last summer, President Roosevelt expressed renewed interest in Passama quoddy, Secretary Ickes visited the site. Maine swung to the Democrats and last week got $10,000,000 for Passamaquoddy...
...couple of whiskies and soda. The Domine assured his listeners "We shall stop spending when you start lending," and the congregation joined in the responsive reading, "we shall start lending when you stop spending." Appalled apparently by the universal belief that the administration is like a weather vane which voers to every zephyr from a brain truster, the President assured his audience that the Government "had hourly contact with every portion of the habitable globe." Such an OGPU should dispel all doubts that the fantastic gyrations of the Administration are the results of ignorance. On the whole, however, the speech...
Sidney S. Coggin '34 won the Vane Trophy that goes to the Intercollegiate chess champion each year. Eric W. Marchand '36 placed third in the tournament...