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...career shows that he generally chooses for profit rather than notoriety or glory. If he chooses for profit, his threat of entering the campaign will be something on which he can set a high price. Republicans have already calculated that the 13,000,000 votes which they polled last autumn must be the absolute minimum conservative vote in the U. S. If Huey Long can poll 10,000,000 votes as third-party candidate, those votes subtracted from the 22,000,000 votes which Franklin Roosevelt polled in 1932, will give the Republican candidate victory...
...Byron was a symbol, are notable in this work. Mr. Calvert's criticism is limited to Byron as he portrayed himself in his published writings and in his letters. Humble, serious, much of a realist despite his exhibitionistic tendencies, Mr. Calvert finds Byron complex, yet tangible. "Where Keats is autumn haze and Shelley pure ether," he says, "Byron is rock--and the hard outcroppings may indicate geologic epochs or hot underflows of lava that are worth nothing and understanding...
...York World. Both men left great wealth with which schools of journalism were established in their names: the Medill School at Northwestern University in Chicago; the Pulitzer School at Columbia in Manhattan. The Pulitzer School made news last fortnight by announcing that its course will be shortened next autumn from two years to one, that only graduate students will be admitted...
...Force. Few months afterward he flew back to England in record time. Later he made a second trip, settled down to a job as commercial pilot in Australia, got his face permanently scarred when he dashed into a burning plane to save a passenger after a crash. Last autumn tall, rangy Lieut. Scott came to world fame when he flew to Australia once more, won the MacRobertson Trophy Race and ?20,000. Last week in Paris he was given what everybody expected: the Harmon Trophy as No. 1 airman...
...fall of the pound has helped intensify the gloom but no single cause can be spotted. Business has tapered off very little from the peak of the upswing that began last autumn, yet the stockmarket last week rounded out a long month's decline...