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...Hindenburg became the savior of Germany in November 1914 due to the valor of Litzmann's brigade at Lodz - my brigade!" cried Speaker Litzmann. "That battle won Hindenburg his Field Marshal's baton. Today, Meine Hcrren, something more important than a baton is at stake...
...beating California gave Stanford at football. Then he hurried to Manhattan where he scored the quick success that San Franciscans had prophesied for him. Dobrowen (pronounced Do-bro-vane) gets dynamic effects by constantly fluttering his left hand, tossing his black head, whipping the air nervously with his baton. Considerable excitement was aroused at his Manhattan debut fortnight ago when he played Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, of which San Francisco is tired but which Manhattan seldom hears now since Toscanini is not attracted to the pessimistic Russian's music. The tireless drilling that Toscanini gives his orchestra made...
...under rigid statutory law; that in 1930 the State of Louisiana through its public schools paid $40.64 to educate each white, $7.84 for each black child. Remembering this disgraceful disparity in providing equal opportunity for all its children, let them also remember the great tax-supported State university at Baton Rouge, for whites only, and the magnificent new Medical School built and supported in New Orleans by State Tax funds, where no Negro can enter...
...says he, always return in six months unless an exterminator is used continuously. He estimates that if only one healthy rat couple were left alive in Chicago it would produce 359,000,000 descendants in three years. He is proudest of a kill he made in one night near Baton Rouge, La. The State called him in, asked him what he would need. Said Ratkiller Nicholes: "I'll need one ground-up cow, 16 barrels of sweet potatoes, 16 full cheeses and 50 niggers." The 50 Negroes distributed cow, potatoes and cheese, all poisoned, throughout 50-mile drain ditches...
...virtue of a resignation, W. B Tabler '36 will be the drum major of the Harvard Band this year. Tabler halls from Momence, Illinois, where he was a champion baton thrower. Last year W. J. Lloyd '33 was elected leader, but due to the pressure of his studies he was forced to resign...