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...British Government, busy reducing expenses, made no visible move to aid Cunard last week, but the French Government continued its subsidy to the French Line which kept 1,500 men at work all week at St. Nazaire putting 55 tons of steel per day into the hull of the super-super-ship with which they will challenge Cunard's. (Both liners will be "faster than the fastest and larger than the largest" now extant.) Up to last week the French Line had put roughly three times more money than Cunard into actual construction, namely 300,000,000 francs null...
...Rich with Ritchie". To Chicago to address the Illinois Manufacturers' Association went Maryland's Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie in accordance with Rule No. 6 of How to Become President (The candidate must move about the coun-try). He visited the Board of Trade where business in the grain pits ceased for four minutes while he was given an ovation. One grain broker helped Governor Ritchie follow Rule No. 4 (Identify yourself early and firmly with a national issue) by coining a campaign slogan: "Get Rich with Ritchie...
...Brüning-Hindenburg-Groener triumvirate have faced almost monthly crises for the past 18 months. One more did not cause them to lose their heads. First move was to issue one more emergency decree described by German correspondents as "the most tremendous effort ever made by a German government to save the German people and economic system...
Coach Wachter has decided to shift the lineup of the Crimson hoopsters in an attempt to get more speed into the outfit than was shown against Dartmouth last Thursday, when the Green won, 30 to 13. He plans to move Captain Pattison from the forward to the center position and to start W. S. Baskervill '32 and A. J. Matursevitch '33 at the forward positions. Although Pattison lacks height for the center berth, Coach Wachter feels that he will more than make up for this deficiency by his excellent all-round play and that this combination should be able...
...library building is now complete and we shall put into it our priceless collection of celestial photographs when we move into it in the first week of February," Professor Shapley said. "By the addition of the building to our present cramped quarters, which is larger than the rest of the station combined, we shall gain seven offices and a lecture room, besides the housing for the books and photographs...