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...present coach at M. I. T. and Huge Harrington, present Olympics mentor. Since Dartmouth last year gave the post of head hockey coach to Eddy Jeremiah and Yale has this year named for the position Murray Murdock, both professional stars, the Committee is expected to look over Cooney Welland of the Bruins, Harvard assistant coach in 1932, Fred Hitchman of the Bruins a few years ago, and Bun Cook and Frank Boucher of the Rangers...
...bumps. A tug lashed on to a 400-ft. hawser, and at 6-m.p.h. started a three-week tow up the Hudson to Troy (142-mi.), through New York's Barge Canal to Oswego on Lake Ontario (184-mi.), and 1,045 more miles through Lake Ontario, the Welland Canal, Lake Erie, St. Clair River, Lake Huron, the Straits of Mackinac, then due south through Lake Michigan to Whiting. By Halloween, Mr. Kellogg expected to deliver one of the biggest single pieces of freight ever shipped...
...arranged last week by that most ominous go-between Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen. In the first years of the World War, while military attache at the German Embassy in Washington, he was charged by the U. S. Secret Service with paying for the projected blowup of the Welland Canal. It was von Papen who went between Hitler and von Hindenburg, with the ultimate result that an Austrian-born painter of picture post cards became Dictator of Germany. To escape assassination by Nazi radicals who hate him, swank Franz von Papen became Minister in Vienna (TIME...
...time for the type of ocean-going cargo vessel which could use the waterway (up to 15,000 tons) from Duluth to the mouth of the St. Lawrence: nine days. Such vessels would require nine days more to reach Liverpool. Canada has already spent $130,000,000 on the Welland Canal around Niagara Falls. That is half of her half of the total cost...
...delegates left Ottawa for the official opening of the Welland Ship Canal between Lakes Erie & Ontario police heard of a plot to assassinate James Henry Thomas, British Secretary of State for Dominions. Orders went out for the arrest of "a Sinn Feiner of the most radical type -a slight, ruddy-faced Irishman with a broad, noticeable nose"-a description which, except for the nationality, might also be applied to Mr. Thomas. In Toronto was apprehended one Dan Malone, who said it was a "frame...