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...news from the Pacific said that the U.S. was ready for war in the East (see p. 36). The way the U.S. met the Japanese envoy, Saburo Kurusu, said that Washington was ready for war with Japan. President Roosevelt got his Neutrality Act repealed-but by a chillingly narrow margin (see p. 22). But unlike the President's trip to Warm Springs, this great journey into the unknown was nothing the country looked forward...
...were only two tough opponents on the schedule--Yale and Princeton. The rest of the lineup was as follows: Bates, Boston College (before Leahy), Colby, Brown, Virginia, Springfield, and Tufts. Brown held the Rose Bowl winners to seven points and Yale lost by only a narrow 10 to 3 margin. The Princeton Tigers put the only blot on the 1919 record when they held the Crimson...
...rose Ickes' deputy Ralph K. Davies. He warned oilmen that for three years they had been depleting oil reserves faster than they had replaced them-"the margin of safety is fast narrowing." If burned up at the present rate (1,450,000,000 bbl. a year) proven U.S. oil reserves would last less than 14 years...
...most of them the tax meant that the slim margin they had left for luxuries-vacations, permanent waves, a pint of beer in the evening-had disappeared. To some it meant cutting necessities from their budgets. Bachelors talked of marrying widows with large families to take advantage of the $200-per-child annual exemption. Engaged girls wondered whether to get married, since, by a quirk of the law, unmarried couples living together get $40 more exemption than married ones. All other British wage-earners chewed the tops of pencils, figured, pulled long faces...
BOSTON--Mayor Maurice J. Tobin of Boston was re-elected to a second four-year term tonight by a margin of 9,000 votes over his only formidable opponent, James Michael Curley, whom he defeated by 25,000 votes four years...