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...that the events which took place in September have put the whole Spanish conflict into a new perspective. If the nations of Europe escaped the great catastrophe in the acute Czechoslovak crisis, surely nobody can make out with that recollection in their minds that they are going to knock their heads together over Spain...
...Coach Carr defined the clash with the Bruins, who came up from Providence with "an inferior record" but inspired play. This League business is definitely a headache for the coach, because Harvard, being near the top, is continually on the defensive. "Every team comes down to knock us off," he complains, but Carr is confident that the Johnson outfit won't be stopped by the Elis...
...price of crude oil. Initiated by small independents in the non-prorated States of Louisiana and Arkansas, the cuts were soon adopted by everyone, dropping the price from $1.22 to about $1.02, the first general cut since NRA. Thus brought into the open was a paradox which may knock the complex proration system galley-west: an efficient method of controlling production has been worked out, but since the Federal antitrust suit against the oil industry at Madison, Wis. last year, there has been no way of stabilizing the price or the quantity of refined petroleum...
...Tuesday afternoon. The varied articles of clothing on the hangers had not the resplendency of new garments, but they did have the proper aristocratic drape and much good, solid wear in them. Sometimes this friend of Vag's would come to his penthouse room and timidly knock on the door and ask in a small voice if Vag had anything for him. Vag seldom did. And he has nothing for him now except a growing respect for this little man who manages to be so dignified about an undignified business. His store is bare now, and all the stuff...
...farm in Pall Mall, Tenn., on the 20th anniversary of his Wartime feat (killing 20 German soldiers and capturing 132 singlehanded), Sergeant Alvin Cullom York offered a plan for peace: "I believe if we want to stop Hitler we must knock him off the block...