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...Exercises in the Stadium: consisting of the Ivy Oration, the surrender of the Class Banner to the Class of 1937, the Confetti Battle, and a presentation by the Class of 1909. Seats in the Stadium are priced...
...poor man's fight.'' Returning from a fishing trip that summer, Shoemaker stopped one night at a dance hall which reeked of Wartime spirit. Bunting and flags aroused his ire to such an extent that he refused to stand up when "The Star-spangled Banner" was played. The crowd, observing the lone sitter, moved toward him in mass formation, growling, ugly, threatening...
...Catholic priests quarrel with Nazidom was set forth last week in the Berlin suburb of Hcnnigsdorf. There gathered 1,800 Catholic children, aged 10 to 16, on church property for their first spring festival. The field was bright with their church club banners, blazoned with pictures of the Blessed Virgin and other saints. Suddenly from nowhere marched a company of Hitler Jugend. The company marched clean through the crowd of children, seized a banner, about-faced and marched back again. At this show of big-boy force, the priests herded their children back toward the railway station. At the station...
Patriotic anthems have a way of making trouble for symphony conductors. Great Karl Muck was driven from Boston for not playing "The Star-Spangled Banner'' at a Wartime concert. Arturo Toscanini was beaten by Italian youths when he refused to play the Fascist Hymn in Bologna...
...time, the first twelve experimental Wasp and Hornet engines were sputtering and coughing in the Pratt & Whitney shop, Shareholder Deeds had moved to Hartford to become assistant treasurer, later secretary & treasurer and still later vice president. The next two years were banner years for Pratt & Whiney and for Stockholder Deeds's $40 investment. Pratt & Whitney engineers developed the highest-powered air-cooled motor in existence, fitted with split crankshafts (for greater endurance), new type cylinder heads (for greater cooling). Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic fired a nation-wide interest in aviation-and aviation stocks. The public rushed...