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...keynoter and temporary chairman of a national political convention is, as most voters know, the man who starts the show with a long, ardent harangue which is forgotten by the time the first nominating ballot is taken. Nonetheless the Press made a great stir last week when, as a gesture to the West and liberals, the potent Committee on Arrangements of the Republican National Committee picked Oregon's mildly progressive Senator Frederick Steiwer to sound the Party keynote at Cleveland next June. Republican newspapers tried to make the gesture seem important. Democratic sheets gleefully compared the probable content...
...Franklin Roosevelt were not long in seeing that this kind of political dynamite could blow larger holes in the Solid South than any other single campaign issue. Throughout the South began to appear cheap pamphlets containing blurred photographs of the Roosevelts consorting with Negroes, blatant text proclaiming them ardent Negrophiles. First public notice of this stirring of the black pot of race feeling was taken when copies of the Georgia Woman's World were placed on the chair of every delegate to the convention of anti-Roosevelt "Goober Democrats," called by Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge...
...blackshirt troops under ebullient Fascist Achille Starace touched Lake Tana, vital to Egypt's welfare, than the British Press and Parliament burst into shocked cries over Italy's use of poison gas. Up in the House of Lords stood bald, stoop-shouldered Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, ardent humanitarian and brother of the bearded Bishop of Exeter. In his hand he held a telegram from Haile Selassie's comely kinky-haired 16-year-old daughter, Princess Sehai. "For seven days without a break," she wrote, "the enemy has been bombing the armies and people of my country, including...
...Marston Taylor Bogert, 68, first professor of organic chemistry at Columbia University (since 1904), ardent pacifist, tireless lecturer, author of 300 chemical papers of which 64 concern the quinazolines and thiazoles (synthetic aromatics) ; the annual medal of the American Institute of Chemists...
...able President Herrick reaches 70. Last week Girard named as his successor Dr. Merle Middleton Odgers, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania's College of Liberal Arts for Women. Lank, sharp-faced, 35, Merle Odgers is married, lives with his wife and daughter in suburban Upper Darby. An ardent classicist, he may circumvent one of the last of Founder Girard's barriers: "I do not forbid, but I do not recommend the Greek and Latin languages...