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League debates for the current season will get under way when the debaters representing Harvard will uphold the affirmative against Amherst on the subject, "Resolved: That the Economic prosperity of the United States is unfavorable to its morals", in Paine Hall on the evening of December 8. The negative Harvard team was to have gone to Vassar at this time, but the team from Poughkeepsie forfeited the match...
Said Toral's lawyer, famed and feline Demetrio Sodi: "I wanted my client to be convicted. Had he been acquitted no power on earth could have prevented a lynching. We shall appeal to the Supreme Court. That august tribunal will uphold my contention that the crime was purely political and is therefore punishable by a sentence of not more than 20 years imprisonment...
...frank to confess that my interest in this campaign is personal far more than partisan. If I did not believe in the ability of Mr. Hoover to deal with the farm problem, if I did not believe he would in good faith uphold and enforce the Constitution, I can pledge you that I would not be undergoing the unspeakable hardships of a long campaign...
...Knight of the Thistle is the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Claud George Bowes-Lyon, a descendant of Scottish kings far more ancient in lineage than is Britain's Royal House. The Earl, pious and as Scotch as the Thistle itself, is at pains to uphold the motto of his House: In Thee, O Lord, have I put my trust...
Tonight the Harvard team will argue the negative of the proposition, "Resolved: That Al Smith should be elected president". Next Thursday three other men will uphold the positive side of the same question against Yale in Symphony Hall. The men for this second debate have been competing this week, and their names will be announced in a few days...