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...week-long spring vacation will be granted next school year, but the Christmas vacation will be cut down to one week with students returning December 28 and Thanksgiving vacation omitted...
Floyd Stahl's Crimson nine returned to Cambridge yesterday from a week-long holiday trip to the South, during which Harvard beat North Carolina 6-5 and Navy 9-6, while dropping contacts to Georgetown, Duke, Army, and Columbia...
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans is part of a week-long sport fiesta (yacht races, track meets, boxing, tennis and basketball). An invitation to the Sugar Bowl is worth about $50,000. Quick to accept New Orleans' invitation last week were undefeated Texas Christian and once-defeated (by Notre Dame) Carnegie Tech...
...mark Jubilee-Birthday Week, ordinarily placid, sober Netherlanders went wild in celebration. Throughout the diked-in nation spanking wenches danced in the streets till the small hours, workmen, on paid holiday, swizzled smooth Holland gin, and school children, shipped to Amsterdam to view the parades, were treated with pictures of the Queen and slabs of ice cream. Highspots of the week-long festivities: the largest military review The Netherlands has ever seen, witnessed by the Queen (one of her favorite royal duties) : a commemorative service in Amsterdam's very old Nieuwe Kerk (New Church), where the Queen was crowned...
Franklin Roosevelt's display of pique occurred last week on the first morning of a week-long holiday. Next day in somewhat better humor the President settled down to the tasks of an unusually trying week end. The railroad committee's report arrived and the President studied it at length. He sent to Congress, with a recommendation that it be given "most careful consideration," Hungary's proposal, made last February, to pay off its $1,685,000 Relief Loan in full but without interest. As this week's major move against Depression, the President roundly endorsed...