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Last week's crisis aroused the suspicion that somewhere something had gone wrong, that either Hitler's or Stalin's calculations had been upset. Adolf Hitler's time-tested technique is to increase his demands when his foe weakens. But Adolf Hitler also has a time-tested technique of lowering his demands when his foe stiffens. Then he takes the best he can get and goes back for more later...
With another victory under their belt, the Varsity lacrosse team will assail a strong Eli foe at New Haven on Saturday. So far the Crimson has had a most unsuccessful season with eight losses against two wins...
...from 1934 through the first year of World War II. Last week Bishop Hurley became the first prelate to declare openly that Naziism ("that rampant paganism which has plunged a continent into tears and blood") has replaced Communism as Public Enemy No. 1 of the Roman Catholic Church. "The foe of all we love, both as Americans and as Catholics, is the Nazi," said Bishop Hurley. "Communism is still our enemy but ... in point of urgency if not in point of teaching, Communism has now ceded its primacy to National Socialism...
...showed faintly. Old Senator Norris brooded sadly and in silence. Bumbling Alben Barkley talked on & on about other things, until it seemed he was not going to mention Huey at all, finally got around to Huey's courage and prowess in debate, ended with a roar: "Friend and foe alike denounced the way he was taken away!" It was a painful show. The backwoods followers of the Kingfish who still loved him could find no echo of their feeling in what was said. The people who still hated him could only wonder how the statue of such a cheap...
Periodically reprinting the Constitution and leading sermons preached east of the Mississippi, the Transcript specialized in nostalgic essays. But editorially the Transcript was not always a gentleman. Foe of book and stage censorship, in a city holding the record for censorship, the Transcript fought Prohibition, reported the Thaw case in "blunt, ugly words which pseudo-fastidious contemporaries mincingly blue-penciled." Famed for his acid if polished gusto was the Transcript's music and drama critic, the late H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker. But it was rumored that he wrote his first drafts in Latin...