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...France's Foreign Minister, Laval instigated the Franco-Soviet Pact of 1935 which brought French businessmen a billion francs in contracts. Sixteen months in advance he told Mussolini it would be all right to rape Ethiopia, and later set his seal on the deed in the Hoare-Laval Pact with Britain which sanctioned Ethiopia's enslavement...
Washington had better luck than California. Sixteen colleges and universities (among them Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio State, Iowa State, Oberlin) agreed to give haven to Washington's Nisei. Of the 32 queried by Dr. Sproul, 14 replied they were "interested" (the rest said No or were noncommittal). And when Dr. Sproul announced the names of the 14, the outcry from their States was so fierce that three (Idaho, Kansas, Arkansas A. & M.) quickly changed their minds...
...ease this shipping situation, sixteen ore carriers are being built for the Maritime Commission, five for Pittsburgh S.S. Co. Detroit's twelve automobile carriers (no longer needed) may be rebuilt to carry ore, and ships formerly handling wheat may be switched to the dusty, dirty ore trade. If they are, Northwestern elevators, already jammed with last year's wheat carry-over, will have little room to store this season's wheat harvest...
Just turned eighteen, Lois Andrews, pride of California's beauty contests, and wife of comedian George Jessel, turned up at the Crimson Network yesterday, on the second anniversary of her ejection from a Boston night club. At that time, the youthful singer-dancer was sixteen, but people thought she was at least twenty. That is everyone except the authorities, who looked at official records, instead of the more obvious facts in her favor...
...Sixteen colleges extending along the Atlantic seaboard from New Hampshire to North Carolina have entered 91 contestants whose combined ability constitutes one of the strongest fields in several years. Of all the championship marks see in the past, only one--the 2:51.9 medley relay effort of Vande Weghe, Hough and Van Oss of Princeton--seems beyond the reach of the current crop of mermen. Any of the others may conceivably go by the boards...