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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crucial Week? All this was small comfort for the Finns, who last week were harder pressed than ever by the Kremlin to come into the Soviet orbit. Finnish Minister to Sweden Juho Paasikivi and Finance Minister Väinö Tanner made another flying trip from Moscow back to Helsinki to lay before their government Dictator Stalin's "final offer." Mr. Tanner had hopes that "we can come to an agreement," reported that Tovarish Stalin had assumed personal charge of the Russian-Finnish negotiations. Negotiator Stalin was "very friendly and cordial" and smoked cigarets endlessly instead of the usual...
Year before World War I got going, tall, dignified Albert V. Moore, socialite, and squat, jib-nosed Emmet J. McCormack, ex-tugboat captain, tossed $5,000 into the pot and founded the shipping firm of Moore & McCormack (now Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.). Two years later the shoestring firm bought its first ship for $90,000 (cash: $15,000), christened it the Moormack, put $185,000 worth of repairs into its hull and went after business. From that time on the history of Moore-McCormack is the history of most of today's U. S. merchant marine...
Denying that the number of Freshman mental cases has increased this year, Dr. Arlie V. Bock '15, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, announced yesterday that the general health record of the University has improved phenomenally over last year...
...long can Yale authorities continue to overlook the serious direction in which a little vodka has turned student heads. The names of the leaders--"V. Leggakacheff, S. Pullizpantzoff, X. Wachtoff, and D. Ginsburgovitch"--have already been revealed. It remains only for the crusading "Yale News" to make university authorities fully aware of the "White menace" and to send all remmants of Czaritst Imperialism back to Lenin...
...decided Southern accent. A little grudgingly they conceded that the most outstanding game of the week was not in Yale's hallowed Bowl, not in Minnesota's famed Stadium nor Los Angeles' vast Coliseum, but in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains at Knoxville: Alabama v. Tennessee...