Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...argue, using his old questioning form of argument. Now he is surer that he is right, but his patience is abundant. If Roosevelt and Wallace win, Henry Wallace, more than any other man, would be conscious of the weight that would fall upon his shoulders if anything should happen to the President, whom he regards as indispensable...
Latest advices from the coast are that the students, and the campus paper, intend not to back down in their proposed insistence on freedom of campus activities. What will happen--that is, what President Sproul will decide to do--is not clear. But undergraduate eyes throughout the nation are turning California-ward, as they were turned toward Michigan last year, and as they continually turn when student freedom is challenged in one college or another...
Brown is weak at the guards and at the flanks right now, but a lot can happen by November 16 when the Bruins invade the stadium. If they can plug those gaps, their classy backfield will be heard from. Harvard-Yale games are almost impossible to predict, even the ay before, but at this writing the Harlowmen seem to have a slight edge. They outrushed and outpassed the Elis last fall and lost only through fumbles. Yale will be a bit better than it was in 1939, but it should take more than that to upset Harvard again...
...scandal in the State House involving Republican Controller William A. Runnells spread a haze in the sky. The personal popularity of Louis Jefferson Brann, former Democratic Governor, candidate for U. S. Senator, also made Republican leaders reluctant to have the Maine vote used as an augury of what will happen in November in the rest of the country. Nevertheless young Oren Root Jr., head of the Associated Willkie Clubs, marched in to the State two days before the election and proclaimed: "What you do or do not do on Monday will profoundly affect Willkie's chances of victory...
When Driver Arthur James overturned on a Wisconsin highway, next car to happen along was that of an urbane, immaculately dressed man who helped right the overturned car, extricate Mrs. James. Then Dr. Glenn Frank, onetime president of the University of Wisconsin, longtime Republican bigwig, drove on to the town where he was to speak in his campaign for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator...