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Yale and Harvard have too long a record of happy athletic relations to break down at this point. We feel assured that they will reconsider their disagreements carefully and maintain an enviable association on its previous inviolate plane. --Princetonian
Responding to "the evident determination of our government ... to maintain a navy second to none," the House committee also provided for twelve new destroyers, six submarines, 333 airplanes, upped the Navy's enlisted force from 93,500 to 100,000, the Marine Corps' from 16,000 to 17,000. Declaring Government building costs greater than those of private manufacturers, the committee proposed to limit Government aircraft construction to experimental engines, primary training planes. Notably missing from the bill was any provision for airships to replace the crashed Shenandoah, Akron and Macon...
Adolf Hitler turned 47 last week. On ordinary days the Realmleader has come to maintain a worshipful wall around himself against even the biggest of the Nazi bigwigs. On his birthday, however, he welcomed them all at the Berlin Chancellery, glowed under their congratulations, revived Kaiser Wilhelm's practice of birthday honors...
...Deal nay-sayers-Frank Richardson Kent, Mark Sullivan & David Lawrence. Smarting under the President's smiling sarcasms as sorely as the President smarts under the unsympathetic reports they write about his Administration, Columnists Kent, Sullivan & Lawrence now fail to appear at White House Press conferences or maintain a dignified silence when Mr. Roosevelt talks to reporters. Not until last week, however, was a public issue made of the breach between President and press critics...
...interesting commentary on the bill is the fact that it includes the following interesting phrase: "Whereas, Harvard University endeavors to foster and maintain the ideals of truth and freedom so dear to America . . ." It should impart a pleasing glow to the heart of every Harvard man to know that the Senate of the United States does not consider his university a hot-bed of red agitation, even if the Massachusetts legislature does. We refer the representative from Dorchester to Messrs Roosevelt, Garner, and Byrns, who are choosing the commission, for a certificate of Harvard's virtue...