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...domestic politics, the Baldwin Government will probably reimpose the McKenna duties (TIME, May 12), because they afford some measure of protection to Empire produce, the lack of which had disastrously affected the automobile industry of Britain. It seems established by the huge Conservative vote in Lancashire, home of the cotton mills and Richard Cobden of free trade fame, that protection is not so much of a bugaboo as was Socialism; therefore, a trend to protective tariffs is more than probable...
...Andover Blue for the first time this season will face the University Second team this afternoon on the schoolboys' gridiron. Coach Daley, the Andover mentor, is not expecting an easy afternoon with the Harvard seconds, but his objective game with Exeter is but two weeks distant and he can afford to take no chances with his first string men, so he is sending in a full team of substitutes...
Maryland, however, may not afford the Elis much of a rest. Last year they came up a week after Yale's impressive 31-10 victory over West Point and gave Yale its hardest battle of the season. Without losing the ball on downs the southerners crashed down the field in two 80-yard marches and were leading 14 to 0 when the first period ended. Yale made a touchdown and drop kick in the second quarter and added another touchdown in the third, barely squeezing through with a 16-14 triumph. With only a few minutes of play left Maryland...
Developments were impossible to prognosticate. Feng seemed in a shaky position; Wu's situation on the whole appeared desperate. Chang must have been the only Chinese leader who could afford to smile...
...controversy, attacking nobody, he gave his listeners what he termed "a heart-to-heart talk." Said he: "You cannot all make speeches, thank God. . . . We are all going through a pretty bad time. Prices are high; jobs are few; and taxes are heavy. The country simply can't afford, at such times, experiments with either academic socialism or revolutionary mitigation. The Conservative, Party is no patent medicine vendor. It does not profess to have a remedy for every evil, but it is the only Party which offers you the least hope and knows how to make democracy safe...