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...people declared the eternal Right to seek happiness?self Government and the divine duty to Defend that right at any sacrifice?...
Chicago's Better Business Bureau moved last week to clear its city of a bad public name. Enrolled were 700,000 schoolboys to defend Chicago from its defamers during Boys' Week next month. Exclaimed Superintendent of Schools Bogan: "The present generation of Chicagoans needs a baptism of the pride and loyalty that built the World's Fair in '93 and carried the glories of the city to the far corners of the earth...
This is Author Spencer's first novel, yet it has been chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for April in preference to such books as Author Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Great Meadow (TIME, March 3).* Book-of-the-Month selectors defend their choice by comparing Gallows' Orchard to the work of the late great Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Hardy...
Only one champion has returned to defend his title during the tournament this week. This is G. H. Nawn '32, who as a Freshman won the 135 pound title last winter; Nawn will have nine opponents between him and a second title...
Handball. Foundation of all ball games. No net. Small inflated rubber ball, leather gloves. Alfred Banuet, a young Latin who has been beating all the hand-ball-playing San Francisco policemen at the four-walled game, went to St. Louis last week to defend his national title, played circles around his opponents, put out George Nelson of Baltimore in the finals...