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...economic nationalism is advisable for the United States," A. Gilman Sullivan '36, Irving R. Murray '36, and Thomas W. Stephenson '37 will uphold the affirmative against Yale next Friday evening, while Thomas H. Quinn '36, Powers McLean '35, and Charles B. Feibleman '36 will journey to Princeton to defend the negative against the Nassan orators in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debate, it was announced last night following the Debating Council tryouts...
...heard scarcely ten feet away. The three men on the bench leaned forward, hands cupped behind ears. Soon the news of the witness' appearance was buzzing over Pittsburgh. Spectators began to flow in. Within an hour the courtroom was jammed with citizens eager to hear Andrew William Mellon defend himself in person against the U. S. Government's charge that he is a liar, cheat and fraud...
...prices this week almost as fast as the belga fell. This made Premier van Zeeland so angry that he lashed out: "The Belgian franc ought to buy just as much merchandise as it did a year ago. Stop thinking of the monetary question, my countrymen! We are here to defend the franc and your savings. Keep calm...
Other outstanding races should come in the fifty and 100-yard free style events. Charles Flachmann of the University of Illinois, will return to defend his title in these races...
...yore in order to extol "now a van Gogh, now a Picasso, now a Klee, now a Braque, now a Wadsworth, or now the art of the primitive Negroes or the Seljuka." That kind of criticism is indeed indefensible; one hopes, however, that Mr. Wickham, in his ardor to defend classicism against the enemy, is not leaning over backwards, for all the modernist idols--except the obvious frauds--possess a perfection of their own, which the best modernist critics, at any rate, are gravely anxious to explain and to applaud. So one must really be cautious in his demolition; Picasso...