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Arms for the Head. Before his roistering House, Speaker Byrns would be completely at a loss without two arms that help to uphold the Head of the House. One of them is bland, supercilious Representative John J. O'Connor, Tammanyman and brother of Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner. Democrat O'Connor, as Chairman of the Rules Committee, has helped in part to make up for the absence of Leader Bankhead. Only trouble is that Chairman O'Connor is so willing to stiff-arm opposition that he is not overly beloved by the House...
Clashing on the subject "Resolved, That a policy of economic nationalism is advisable for the United States," A. Gilman Sullivan '36, Irving R. Murray '36, and Thomas W. Stephenson '37 will uphold the affirmative against Yale next Friday evening, while Thomas H. Quinn '36, Powers McLean '35, and Charles B. Feibleman '36 will journey to Princeton to defend the negative against the Nassan orators in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debate, it was announced last night following the Debating Council tryouts...
...Freshman team has the negative of the question "Resolved, That the several states should enact legislation for the socialization of medicine." For Dartmouth, Berman, Freze, and Remington will uphold the affirmative...
...hounded and harried candidates of other parties so mercilessly that Danzig Socialists and members of Danzig Catholic Center Party had to hold their political rallies just outside the Free City on Polish soil. Irish Sean Lester, the resident High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig, tried to uphold the right of free speech last week but was met with guffaws by new Danzig Nazi Premier Dr. Arthur Greiser...
...proposed repudiation threw Canada into an uproar. Conservative newspapers thundered about disastrous repercussions on Ontario's credit, if not that of the whole Dominion. Securities tumbled. Protective committees tossed out advertisements asking: "If Hon. Mr. Hepburn is RIGHT, the courts will uphold him. So why deny an appeal?" In Ottawa the Federal Government feared that Hon. Mr. Hepburn's move would put bad ideas in the heads of other politicians...