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...this fifth installment Author Romains sticks mainly to industrial and political developments; some of the earlier characters do not even appear. Tycoon Bertrand's automobile factory booms, and Bertrand's fortunes are furthered by joining forces with Champcenais and the sinister armament-maker, Zülpicher. Briand is shown briefly at the Republic's helm, while Gurau, the ambitious politician, bides his time until he can get the Cabinet post he wants. The Abbé Mionnet, sent to tighten up discipline in a provincial diocese, nearly gets in trouble himself when rumors of his liaison begin...
Second Gun was Permanent Chairman Bertrand Snell, white-haired and white-suited. With the polished self-complacency of old-school oratory he recited the now ironic promises of the Democratic platform of 1932. He spoke under noonday heat to delegates who had spent a night with glass in hand, laboring in committee, or even in the hospital, like John Hamilton, who had had an infected ear lanced. But applause overpowered him after such salvos as "Already the New Deal has cost us the progress and prosperity of a generation!" Better than a passing mark went to Chairman Snell from...
...than any other U. S. seat of learning is the College of the City of New York, many of whose 22,000 politically-minded students seem to get their best fun at mass meetings or on picket lines. Completely antipodal is C. C. N. Y.'s President Frederick Bertrand Robinson, goateed, independent oldster who dresses conservatively, plays the cello, hates the rude manners of his undergraduates. After President Robinson characterized some C. C. N. Y. demonstrators as "guttersnipes" and trounced a dozen of the rowdiest of them with his umbrella, a committee of alumni solemnly found that he lacked...
...supervise the affairs of the city's three free colleges,* met to decide whether or not they should fire President Robinson. The Board apparently divided along strictly political lines. Six of the seven members appointed by liberal little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia scorned the majority recommendation that Frederick Bertrand Robinson should be retained, but with disciplinary powers clipped. When the Board voted further to select a subcommittee to figure how this was to be done, two members, Art Critic Lewis Mumford and Scripps-Howard Financial Pundit John T. Flynn, disgustedly snorted: "Whitewash...
Death took the presidents of five life insurance companies. Though no one has yet been named to succeed Ulysses Sherman Brandt of Ohio State Life. Massachusetts Mutual elected Bertrand James Perry after the death of William Henry Sargeant last December. Hartford's Phoenix Mutual picked Arthur M. Collens, a clergyman's son, who had been vice president under the late Archibald Ashley Welch. Insurance tragedy of the year befell Penn Mutual's William Adger Law, who was accidentally shot and killed by his good friend Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco...