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...hours before the President went on the air, the National Association of Manufacturers, convening in Washington, issued a pronunciamento declaring that the threat of New Deal reform measures was all that blocked the pent-up surge of recovery. With a last-minute addition to his speech, President Roosevelt at once delivered a bold reply, outlined his "must" program of legislation, asked the electorate to help him prod Congress to action. Items...
With a bodyguard of two plainclothesmen and one state policeman. Italian Ambassador Auguste Rosso made a quiet half-hour visit yesterday to Harvard, accompanied by Ermanne Armao, Consul General of Boston and Judge Felix Forte. This escort was provided with an eye to yesterday's stabbing threat in Boston...
President Frank J. Swayze 2L expressed perfect confidence in the ability of the team to nose out Amherst, which presents the main threat, and Smith, which is rumored to have a number of expert flyers. It is not expected that the other colleges will figure heavily in the scoring...
...special express car of the Orient Express, a service which cuts shipping time for packages across the Balkans from weeks to hours, everything has been carried, from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...
Then there is also the threat of Japan. Indeed, whenever any industry suffers inexplicable losses in the domestic market, astute politicians hasten to Washington, and, aided by Mr. Hearst, begin to invoke the deity of nationalism against the wicked and cunning Japanese. Yet despite their furor, figures for 1933 demonstrate that the only imports from Japan of any significance are raw silk, tung oil, and fancy crab meat...