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...hardly touched by the press which presumably regarded it as too risky to print. This tale related that at the same time the other venture was going on, just prior to and after the cancelation of the airmail contracts, Elliott Roosevelt and Anthony Fokker had a scheme afoot, supposedly encouraged by the President, to form a great U. S. air transport combine, in which Elliott was to have received 5% of the stock for his efforts; that Herbert Reed went to Manhattan to discuss it with Basil O'Connor, the President's onetime law partner; that Elliott Roosevelt...
...Russia, and he was run out by Stalin after their historic quarrel upon that very point (TIME, June 13, 1927, et seq.). Prominent Soviet figures found it a great nerve strain to have been even remotely mentioned in court last week as having known some-thing was afoot against Stalin, even though charged with nothing themselves. Among half a dozen Bolshevik bigwigs who thus jittered, first to commit suicide was Comrade Mikhail Tomsky, onetime chairman of the Soviet All-Union Council of Trade Unions and Director of the State Publishing House...
...next year's session has been set for March 4, 5, and 6, Dean announced after consultation with Jerome D. Greene '96, secretary to the Corporation. The general assembly will convene in the New Lecture Hall, while Phillips Brooks House will be used for Committee meetings. Plans are already afoot for the attendance of a Harvard delegation...
...revealing light which such polls spread upon the mother University. When Rudyard Kipling's "If" is chosen favorite poem year after year, when milk is named as the most popular beverage, when Petty is universally regarded as the favorite artist, we cannot but feel there are evil forces afoot in Nassau. Something, as "favorite-dramatist" Shakespeare once said, is rotten in the state of New Jersey. Certainly the football set-up is not to blame. Coach Crisler came into his share of the boodle and Captain Constable was rail-roaded into several offices with vote reminiscent of the Roosevelt landslide...
...Toland Cameron of the San Francisco Chronicle; Publisher Joseph Russell Knowland of the Oakland Tribune; Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times. That gave the ex-President one Old Guard paper in each of California's three metropolitan areas. Several months ago the Hoover plans were well afoot: to name an uninstructed Conservative-controlled delegation to the Republican convention at Cleveland. As nominal head of this slate they picked Earl Warren, district attorney of Aiameda County and Republican State Chairman. A steering committee of 21, a slate of 44 delegates, were named to promote this "free ticket...