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Since U. S. radio listeners also thought the crowd laughed, scant attention was paid when Il Duce's son-in-law and press chief Excellency Count Ciano protested: "If Americans heard Mussolini on the radio they heard no laughter, much less 'gales of laughter.' When the Duce mentioned France they heard an expectant hush among the people-a hush awaiting what he had to say-and after he said it they heard unanimous applause...
Declaimed Radiorator Father Charles Edward Coughlin: "Jan. 4, 1935 brings to an end the economic principles of individualism. . . . The avowed opponents of human rights-the Liberty Leaguers, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Manufacturers Association - can find scant consolation as their programs for doles, for balanced budgets, for gold standards, for free rein in the industrial field, are indirectly consigned to the wastepaper basket of ancient history. Let them heed the words of the President that 'we have undertaken a new order of things...
...Stadium, which, after all, is the purpose of the Ivy Orator, can be found in a competition for the position rather than the customary election. It is a class office which demands the particular ability of being humorous in speech. Under the present election system there is only a scant possibility that the right man is chosen as Ivy Orator...
Again the team will be coached by Charles N. Proctor of Dartmouth, whose assistance enabled the 1934 board men to come in third in the Eastern Downhill race, although he was unable to prevent his Alma Mater from nosing it out by a scant margin in the Tuckerman's ravine slalom race. The team is open to all men in the University, including Freshmen, and it is expected that there will be a team for each class, rather than only for the second class, as last year...
...vote of thanks. In midterm elections during the past half century the minority party has taken from the majority an average of 48 seats in the House of Representatives. As soon as the counting began Republicans saw that they were only going to add about 20 seats to the scant 114 they now hold. The Democrats would still hold two-thirds...