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...Arrow Collar...
Artist Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, 40 years ago. At Ohio State University he was a brilliant bedraggled student. Few of his friends knew that at the age of eight his left eye had been shot out by a playful playmate with an arrow. Through the Peace Conference, Thurber served as a code clerk in the U. S. Embassy in Paris. In 1925 he was Nice editor of the Paris edition of the Chicago...
...Yale is concerned in the matter at any rate, are a little unjust." In speaking of "over-endowed private institutions that do not know what to do with their money," the Administrator is not quite fair to Yale--or to Harvard, Williams, and the other targets of his arrow, for that matter. Right now Yale spends just as much money as it can on aid of self-supporting students, is forced to spend less than she would like to on scholarships and fellowships. True, there are endowments, but are not self-supporting students benefitted by some of them? Yale knows...
...French acrobats, who accused his opponent of trying to walk a tightrope on the New Deal; in Michigan. Farmer-Laborite Senator Henrik Shipstead for his third term; in Minnesota. Republican-Democrat-Progressive-Commonwealth Hiram Johnson, over a lone Socialist; in California. Democratic Senator Royal S. Copeland over an "Arrow-collar" Republican and Socialist Norman Thomas; in New York. Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler over Republican George M. Bourquin, a onetime Federal judge who once remarked: "This court may be in error but it is never in doubt''; in Montana. Republican Senator Warren R. Austin over Democrat Fred...
...Moses, New York City's Commissioner of Parks, belabored Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman. It was Jew v. Jew and the lie was passed, but nobody was interested. With equally stern purpose the Republican nominee for Senator, Ernest Harold Cluett (of Troy's Cluett Peabody & Co., makers of Arrow Collars) bid for the job of Democratic Senator Copeland. If Republican Cluett had loudly trumpeted that he wore no man's collar, voters might have listened and laughed. Instead he remained very much on the inside pages because he persisted in crying: "The Federal Government is wasting our money...