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...however, he would often vehemently say of his inheritance: "Things will be different when I am King!" Great problems of the Kingdom and the Empire to which Edward VIII has for years given his best thought are: 1) how to promote the sale of British goods; 2) how to combat unemployment; 3) how to minimize the clash of British classes...
There General Graziani had been able to trap the forces of well-meaning but none too skillful Desta Demtu in open combat, attack them simultaneously with tanks, planes and two divisions of infantry, one white, one black. Honest Ras Desta Demtu would be an ideal Quartermaster General if Ethiopia had a modern army, but he is a poor strategist. He made the mistake of entrenching part of his troops. Under the pounding of Italian guns they fell back slowly at first, finally broke and ran. Unsupported by eye witnesses, Italians exultingly claimed that they had killed 5,000 Ethiopians, advanced...
...team will have their first taste of combat since the vacation when they will meet Gardiner High School Saturday evening in the Harvard pool. The Gardiner teams are usually strong aggregations and constant winners in New England interscholastic, but Muir hopes that some of the untried members of his squad will show hitherto undiscovered speed and ability when under the stress of actual competition
...forget his grief and partly because his enemies were trying to discredit his administration of the Navy Office. Pepys threw himself wholeheartedly into his job. He became a walking encyclopedia of Navy affairs, was able to confound almost single-handed the Parliamentary commission of investigation, went on to combat, with varying success, the inadequate funds, irresponsibility and chaos that marked the Navy of Charles...
...unanimous vote the Minor Sports Council last night decided to stand as a body behind a resolution for the retention of all minor sports on the H.A.A.'s budget. John Dorman '36, president of the Council, opened the meeting by stating that the only effective method to combat the proposed cut in the athletic program was unified action, and then read the measure he had drawn...