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Last week, for the fourth year in succession, Franklin Roosevelt neglected to send the U. S. Chamber of Commerce a message of welcome. In fact, just as the 1,700 Big Businessmen who had swarmed to Washington for the 26th annual convention of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce settled down for their first assembly in the slick, neoclassic C. of C. building across Lafayette Square from the White House, Franklin Roosevelt went fishing (see p. 13). Obvious reason for the President's snub is that ever since 1933 C. of C. meetings have been hymns of hate against...
With just one week of practice remaining before the game with Cambridge University on Saturday, March 26th, the Harvard Rugby team is rounding into top form. Regular scrimmages were held on Monday, Tuesday and Friday of this week, and the team showed great improvement. Competition is keen, and the full-time practice game scheduled for this afternoon is expected to be a close, exciting struggle...
After practicing every day last week, the Harvard rugby team has begun to take definite shape for its game with Cambridge University on Saturday, March 26th. In the early part of the week practice was held indoors in the small Carey cage. But though hampered by lack of space, a lot of valuable ground-work was done. With the beginning of outdoor practice on Thursday, the ruggers were able to put on their cleats and get a real work-out. Contact work started at once, and scrimmages were hold both Thursday and Friday. The Crimson showed generally good tackling...
Weight, speed, endurance and previous experience necessarily count in this first game of the season. The Cantabs, at the end of their season, will have all of these. An International match, the game on the 26th in the Stadium will have 45-minute halves! Since there are no time-outs and no substitutions in rugby, the Crimson will have to field fifteen men who are fast, who know the game well, and are able to take...
...added to the confusion, running down soldiers and refugees who did not step aside in time. I saw a munitions truck explode near me and watched an armored car burn. At Fengyang a red-eyed, swollen-lipped figure hailed me. He was General Sun Lien-chung, Commander of the 26th Battalion. He stood disconsolately outside the gate of the city and remarked: 'Things are upside down...