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Yale has a strong team built around Lassiter, former football star. In three games in Bermuda during the Easter vacation the Eli squad lost by a score of 3-2 in each contest. In their game with Cambridge they were defeated...
Commons reconvened after the Easter recess last week, and promptly spotted a $100,000,000 grant to Nazi Storm Troopers in the German budget...
Wearing a white apron over his white robes, Pope Pius XI stood before a doorway in the portico of St. Peter's on Easter Monday. Chanting prayers, he grasped a golden trowel, pushed three gilded bricks in place, applied three pats of mortar to them. Thus did he formally close the "Holy Door" and bring to an end the "Holy Year of Human Redemption" celebrating the 1,900th anniversary of Christ's death (TIME, April 3, 1933). During the year 1,200,000 Pilgrims had come to Rome, gaining full jubilee indulgence for their sins by visiting Rome...
Last week Montgomery Ward & Co. reported March sales at the highest level of any month since 1930 and 62.6% above March 1933. Ward sales were not news, for almost every report of retail volume for the Easter season had revealed thumping big gains. But with accountants still footing figures for Industry's first quarter, no one knows precisely how much the swift advance has meant in profits. What was news in the Ward statement was President Sewell Lee Avery's estimated earnings of $1,000,000 for February and March. In the same two months of last year...
...pinch himself to make sure that the amazing upswing in trade since last November was really true. Cornerstone of the improvement, said Dun & Bradstreet, was "the strongest desire to buy that the public has displayed since Wartime days." Despite bad weather in certain sections, the final surge of Easter buying boosted retail sales to the highest level in three years and 70% above last year. Sears, Roebuck reported March sales up 57% from 1933. Spectacular reports were expected from the chainstores...