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...border, French Premier Daladier announced that he plans to visit Tunisia and Corsica in January. French submarines and an airplane squadron, ostensibly on "routine duty," appeared in Tunis and the Tunisian armed forces of 25,000 men were held ready to man the Little Maginot Line, a string of small forts, pillboxes and airplane landing bases dotting the long Tunisian-Libyan border. To Paris French Resident-General Erik Labonne sent a report recommending strengthening of defenses, strict limitation of Italian immigration into Tunisia...
...pick to coal again, tramped to the mine mouth. There they stepped aboard the "cage," a rickety elevator which dropped them 700 feet to the mine-deep, starting point of the sloping shaft which runs out under the sea. To reach their diggings the miners boarded a "rake," a string of small narrow, flat cars fitted with wooden benches, which are let down the ten-degree slope by a wrist-thick steel cable...
...fourth successive triumph for the Stahleymen, who won the contest without the services of several first string men. Coach Stahley used various combinations and gave his reserves a chance to see much action...
Beethoven: Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 74 (Budapest String Quartet; Victor: 8 sides). Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 127 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 10 sides), and Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 11 sides). When gloomy Philosopher Oswald Spengler was casting about for the top artistic achievement of Western Civilization he included the string quartets (not the symphonies) of Beethoven. These three top achievements are given carefully tooled performances by two of the finest contemporary ensembles...
...Vassar and Amherst College glee clubs and the Pierian Sodality of 1808 collaborated on a concert of American music in Poughkeepsie Saturday night. Harvard's string orchestra of 20 picked Pierian musicians, conducted by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, was joined by Vassar in rendering Carl P. Woods' "Winter Winds" and by Amherst in Robert Delaney's "Night...