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British judges and assessors sit on the Ethiopian bench. Britons operate the railroad from Addis Ababa to Dire Dawa near the French Somaliland border. British officers control the Ethiopian police force, train Ethiopian soldiers. A British commission controls the Addis Ababa wireless. A British air commission rules the air over Ethiopia. Britain uses, rent free, an estimated $320 to $360 million worth of property left behind by the Italians. A British financial commission helped set up a new Ethiopian state bank. The United Kingdom Commercial Corp. expedites what trade there...
Those amateurish prognostications do not include Cornell's many entries, because little is known of that squad, but no dire tales of budding Weismullers have emanated from the Ithaca district. The smaller New England colleges, such as Amherst, Bowdoin, and Williams, turned in only mediocre times in the New England meet last week. All in all, it should be a wide open affair in most events. If Yale were entered, things would be different...
...beginning, few men who wrote the news, and fewer still who broadcast it, could resist the purple technique of dire warnings, manic-depressive cycles, sweeping prognostications. Many a news commentator offered his audience little more than a 15-minute nervous breakdown. Not so Elmer Davis. His voice was calm, incisive, with a Hoosier twang as reassuring as Thanksgiving, as shrewd as a small-town banker. (He did not at once recognize his voice's value, offered to take speaking lessons; CBS officials fortunately knew better.) He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground...
Congress could either take it, relying on the country's military top men, or it could leave it-cut the potential of the armed forces, and dare the dire warnings of its strategists...
Suffering their first defeat of the season, the Crimson fencing team bowed before the onslaught of a do-or-dire Yale squad by a 17 to 10 score in a meet held last Saturday at New Haven...