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...next three weeks, at least, Harvard's baseball team is going to hang on tightly to first place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League standing. By turning back Dartmouth, one of the leaders, last Saturday while Yale, another close rival, was being upset by Pennsylvania, the Cantabs comented their grip on the lead, scoring their seventh victory in nine games, and they cannot be displaced before June 18, when their next league game is scheduled...
Cambridge was in the grip of a new Red scare yesterday as an investigation led by Mayor Lyons pointed to a Dunster Street cellar as the center of a Communist organization, propagandizing school children with the end of enrolling them in the Young Communists League. Police believed that Harvard undergraduates were among the leaders of the movement...
...Senate Banking & Currency Committee to denounce investment bankers and suggest the creation by the Government of national industrial banks to provide capital to small businesses. Said he: "The time has come when the Government must step in and not only afford adequate facilities to business, but break up the grip of the investment banking group upon the money markets of this country...
...hospital room in little Lafayette, Ala. one day last week a fleshy, feverish old man lay still in the grip of lobar pneumonia. Having passed through several days of delirium, he did not know what day it was and he was too tired to ask. That was just as well. It was Election Day, and no one wanted to tell J. Thomas Heflin that at 68 he had again lost his chance to get back into the U. S. Senate...
...possibly could, brought it down into spaciousness. ... I was working toward the elimination of the wall as a wall to reach the function of a screen, as a means of opening up space. . . . The planes of the building parallel to the ground were all stressed-to grip the whole to Earth...