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Despite the fact that it was deemed to be the most outstanding unit in the line of march the Harvard University Band only placed third in the opinion of the judges as compared with other bands marching in the NRA parado which passed through Harvard Square shortly before 8 o'clock last evening. The Alexander Graham Post of the American Legion was awarded first prize and the Waltham High School Band second place. Both the Legion and the Waltham band were prize winners at the Worlds Fair this summer...
...estimated audience of over 60,000. Despite the cold there were about ten thousand marchers in the parade that signified Cambridge's support of the National Recovery program. This number also included numerous floats and vehicles representing nearly all of the local business organizations which are affiliated with the NRA...
Last night the aboriginal inhabitants of Cambridge and the nerveless Freshmen of Wigglesworth Hall had the somewhat dubious pleasure of hearing a highly vocal NRA demonstration. From the standpoint of noise produced it was a roaring--not to say deafening--success, and the inclusion of the bands...
That there is any justification to such a display of vulgarity or that I will in nay way bolster the NRA I difficult indeed to see. Actually, what is happening is simply that the NRA is sinking to the grubby level of the back-clapping, hand-wrenching Rotarian, and will presently descend to the more congenial state of shrieking hysteria; it will thus attain to a shrill crescendo of asininity. The effect of the whole thing is comparable to that produced by a firecracker exploding in a bowl of whipped cream; by this time the worthy General Johnson must feel...
...significance than appears on the surface. It is the American substitute for the British exchange stabilization fund. It is hoped to correct wide fluctuations in gold exchange by buying and selling the metal. The administration wants to achieve stability so that price rises in domestic products due to the NRA and the agricultural adjustment act will not be interfered with by gyrations in the unit of value...