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Fighting every inch of the way, three men stood out against the advance of Fascism in Germany last week: pale, bespectacled Chancellor Heinrich Bruning; white-haired Paul von Hindenburg; and their faithful lieutenant, Minister of the Interior and of War Wilhelm Groener. Each morning foreign correspondents in Berlin expected the Bruning Government to fall and Fascist Adolf Hitler, who only fortnight ago pounded a platform and shouted in his best Mussolini manner "Right goes hand in hand with Might!", to seize the Government. Municipal elections were held in Stuttgart. Hitlerites nearly doubled their previous vote. The provincial diets of Oldenburg...
...speech of introduction. "This is the rabbit which is Leverett House," he said with biblical grandeur. It was as he picked Bunny Leverett up by his long aristocratic ears, holding it aloft so that every one could see, that the immortal nature of the rabbit was discovered; its sawdust interior was felt to be of sterner stuff than the ordinary run of toy store rabbits...
Early last week Finland's Minister of Interior. Freiherr Ernst von Born, told Finland's Diet that the State was threatened by a coup d'état from increasingly violent anti-Prohibition groups. "Prohibition and the economic crisis." said Freiherr von Born, "have greatly irritated the nation, making it susceptible to direct action propaganda. . . . Extremists are openly challenging the Government, thereby inciting large sections of the populace to lawlessness. . . . Secret bodies have been planning to form 'direct action cells' in both the Army and the Civic Guards. The Government is determined, however, that the constitutional...
...White House at 7 a.m." was the title of a magazine article in the New York Times last week in which "Hoover-ball" and its players were described. The information was supplied by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, a regular "Hoover-baller." For the first time it was revealed that Hoover-ball is a game, specially invented, played with a special lightweight medicine ball (6 lb.) over a high net on tennis courts. Four such courts are marked out on the White House lawn, moved frequently to keep from wearing out the grass. Excerpts: "When the setup is just what...
...accordance with its custom of annually presenting a play the Delta Upsilon Fraternity is working on the production of a burlesque melodrama in two acts by J. Frank Davis entitled "Gold in the Hills, or the Dead Sister's Secret." This play is set in a farmhouse interior of about 1890 and typifies the provincial American drama of that period. It will be directed by F. C. Packard, Jr. '20, Assistant Professor in Public Speaking. Three performances have been planned for the first week in February, two at the fraternity house on Harvard Street and one at Wellesly College...