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...House Agriculture Committee and killed (13 to 11) the section of the Farm Tenancy bill that provided for an appropriation of $50,000,000 annually for ten years to finance farmers seeking to purchase farms they now operate for absentee owners. Day before suffering their first major legislative setback in the present Congress, President Roosevelt, who had previously made the farm tenancy problem the subject of a special message, made a personal plea for retention of the section before members of the House Committee at a White House conference...
Since the stockmarket has been rising without a single major setback for more than two years, short-sellers have had a pretty sorry time. The last real inning for Bears was the great crash in whiskey stocks in 1933. Last week the New York Stock Exchange reported that its monthly tabulations showed that the short interest at the end of January was the heaviest since June 1933, just before that summer's big break. Relatively, the present short interest appeared more important than in 1933, because the volume of trading at that time was twice as large. Since then...
...definitely inferior to its predecessors of the past few years, it has shown steady and marked improvement during the past four weeks. The lowest ebb of the season was reached early in February when Hodder's streak of thirty consecutive victories was snapped by the B.U. Freshmen. This setback seems to have provided the spark that was lacking, and since then the team has looked like a completely new outfit...
Meantime Generalissimo Franco's lines, which more than half-encircled Madrid like a giant horseshoe, receded or advanced as alternating sallies of the Red Militia and the White Army met with setback or success. White troops, however, were saying confidently that "the fall of Madrid is only a matter of hours...
...exception of the Tercentenary, nothing has been watched by Harvard this season with greater interest than the performance of the football team. The thunderclap of last Saturday's defeat at the hands of an unusually skilled West Point team is viewed by the undergraduate body as a mere setback which should not cast the bar sinister across the rest of the season...