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Chairman Jouett Shouse of the Democratic National Executive Committee exulted: "This remarkable margin can be construed only as a striking indication of the increasing trend toward the Democratic Party as the agency to try to solve the people's problems in this time of national distress. It is but another evidence of the discontent of the people with the rule of the Republican Party and of the nationwide determination to rebuke that party which has made so continuously the boast of enduring prosperity under its rule. . . . Immediately after the bye-election last November I predicted that...
Defeating a composite House team yesterday by a margin of six touchdowns, the 150-pound football team started its season auspiciously. The squad, an exceptionally heavy one, with 17 men weighing 148, has been cut, as follows...
German 4 is a full course devoted to studying the works of Goethe. As such it should, for obvious reasons, be the outstanding course offered by the department. That it falls short of being this by a wide margin is something to be regretted. The main fault of German 4 is the fact that two professors give it, thus destroying all unity and presenting two widely divergent methods of teaching...
...night down the coast to Bridgeport. Conn., fuelled again, taxied up to the Europa's Brooklyn pier early in the morning, nearly 28 hr. ahead of the liner. It was the first time that transatlantic mail had beaten its steamer into port by a full day. Ordinarily the margin is about 18 hr. North German Lloyd officials declared the long distance experiment would be repeated whenever weather permits. On eastward voyages the plane leaves the steamer 300 or 400 mi. out of Southampton, flies ahead to Southampton. Rotterdam, Cologne. Flights are attempted only between late April and October...
...shortly after he had opened an account with a broker. The year before he had withdrawn $5,000 from savings and asked a broker to buy him 100 shares of some good stock outright, something he could put away and forget about. The broker, spying a sucker, described a margin account, told how he could control 500 shares of the same security with the same money. Wolf saw the larger possibilities and took the broker's advice. Shortly afterward the stock went down; he was called for more margin. Bewildered by the sum required he managed to raise...