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...large number of Andover athletes coming to Harvard with the class of 1937 so alarmed Yale authorities, according to rumor, that special emissaries were sent up from New Haven to investigate the reason for this shift of traditional sympathies...
...bridegrooms" she called them, harking back to the able-bodied citizens who got married to escape the draft. Before the hearings opened the steelmasters, confronted by Madam Secretary Perkins and General Johnson, backed down on the company union provisions of their code, thus permitting the dispute to shift to the coal fields where they hoped to fight it out obliquely. Though her major target thus disappeared, Madam Secretary Perkins had many another serious fault to find with the steel code. She flayed its low pay and long hours so effectively that the steel code was sent back into conference...
...ignores the plaintive bleating of the seadrome's S. O. S. At last he picks up Claire and flies to it. Sabotaged by a rival shipbuilding firm the seadrome is slowly sinking. Ellissen suggests to the crew that they take to the lifeboats. Then his noisy emotions again shift. He decides that the lovers really mean well by him, flies away to summon the proper mechanical help to save the seadrome...
...inclined towards men of this class. So if Abbott will come over to my ranch I will make him a gift of a bunch of pigs that he can show at the coming autumn fairs, or even the Century of Progress, and this will produce in him a mental shift and give him so much care he will never allow that unruly tongue of his to betray ignorance. This may be freakish, but it goes. JENNIE MINERVA MILLS CONRAD Conrad Ranch Conrad...
...snapped, sheared through a wire netting, knocked him unconscious. At a soaring meet at Elmira, N. Y., Richard Chichester du Pont, 24, son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. took his father for his first hop in a sailplane. A shift in the wind whipped the heavy glider into a ground loop, spilled it into a clump of bushes. Pilot du Pont & parent were unscratched...