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Crown Princess Juliana ultimately followed her rustling mother out of Parliament. Lusty as ever rose the famed Dutch cheer for Royalty: "Orange Boven! Orange Boven!" ("Orange up! Orange up!").- To Parliament next day Finance Minister Dr. D. J. de Geer sheepishly reported that for the first time in seven years the Dutch budget is out of balance, shows a small deficit of $3,615,300. This in part the Government proposes to make up by "increasing the liquor excise" and "economizing." Two days after good Queen Wilhelmina failed to name a fiance, the Swedish press heard that the name...
...leave it to the machine professionals. . . . [As for Socialism] at times the Scripps-Howard independence becomes little more than erratic whimsy. . . . [Mr. Howard] says I should stay on the sidelines with him and the rest of the Scripps- Howard executives joining in the long-drawn independent-liberal cheer of 'Hold 'em, forces of reform and decency...
King's Cup. Some 20,000 persons crowded about Hanworth aerodrome near London last week, waiting to cheer the winner of the King's Cup race around England. Most expected to see famed Flight Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, last year's Schneider Cup winner, or Squadron Leader A. H. Orlebar, speed record holder, drop out of the sky ahead of the other 87 planes. Others hoped to salute Prince George's Hawk Moth, or the Prince of Wales's Tomtit, as winner of their father's trophy...
...Funnyman Will Rogers said "Twenty thousand Rotarians walking the streets of Chicago . . . not a one has been shot or robbed. It looks like negligence." The occasion: Rotary International's Silver Anniversary Convention, held last week in Chicago, birthplace of Rotary. Some 15,000 delegates attended, fortified with good cheer, name plates, geographical hat-bands, freedom of the city...
...Jayvee race afforded Harvard its next cheer. It led the race for the first mile, at one time being nearly a length ahead. But then Cornell challenged, and pulled up even, finally winning by a length and three quarters. Syracuse was out of it completely, finishing many lengths to the rear, and at no time being dangerous. It was the Cornell boat which deserved the race. After the mile, it raced Harvard on even terms, at a slightly higher pace: then it raised the stroke more, and Harvard could not answer...