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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government and people of the United States. Despite efforts made to solve the dispute by peaceful methods to which no reasonable objection could be offered, one Power has chosen to resort to force of arms. . . . The people and Government of Finland have a long honorable and wholly peaceful record which has won for them the respect and warm regard of the people and the Government of the United States." Called his strongest statement denouncing the policy of conquest and his strongest denunciation of "wanton disregard of law," it went beyond his appeals for peace when Hitler invaded Poland...
...California, in 1933, Martin heard a radio program called The World's Largest Make-Believe Ballroom. It was simply a daily program of phonograph records, but the announcer made a great pretense of having, say, Jan Garber playing on Stage One, Paul Whiteman waiting his turn on Stage Two, Rudy Vallee in the wings, ready to croon. The announcer carried on one-sided conversations with the great names on the record labels, took listeners in their imagination to a Make-Believe Ballroom, far from any two-by-four radio studio...
Ever since cinema began to record musical accompaniments in soundtracks on the edge of film, it has been a question whether music on films would replace music on discs. Most obvious advantages of film records over wax records: 1) no surface noise or record wear; 2) simplification of storage problems (film is lighter, less bulky); 3) whole symphonies and operas can be played without stopping to flip a record or change a needle. As in cinema recording, music films can be cut and patched, their wrong notes erased, their sour ones replaced. Unlike phonograph discs, they can even be played...
Clemson would meet Boston College in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day. Clemson tied with Duke for the Southern Conference championship, with one no-conference defeat on its record, a 7 to 6 loss to Tulane. Duquesne today rejected the bowl...
...match was so close in fact that it was up to Hank Dunbar '42, the last shooter for the Crimson, to save the victory by making a score of 188 out of a possible 200, the record of the afternoon. It was this last bit of excellent shooting that saved the day for their undergraduates...