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...chairman, Republican bosses were more careful. By his right to decide who shall and who shall not have the floor, the permanent chairman is a real power in the convention. That power the Party leaders last week put in the thoroughly safe hands of New York's Representative Bertrand Hollis ("Bert") Snell, 65. In the 20 years since he entered the House, that heavy-bodied, hard-boiled Old Guardsman, who made his fortune in the cheese business, has held doggedly to his belief in High Tariffs, the Gold Standard and the Republican Right-to-Rule...
...Funnyman Cantor, who never got beyond the seventh grade himself, had lined up four famed U. S. college presidents. University of Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins, Stanford's Ray Lyman Wilbur, Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken, College of the City of New York's Frederick Bertrand Robinson...
...original piece. I thought you just were to send in the best essay you could find. If I had known, I would have written one myself." Dismayed, Eddie Cantor gulped : "An honest mistake. . . . But of course he doesn't get the scholarship." Lamented Judge Frederick Bertrand Robinson: "Eddie was doing a fine thing. . " . Most unfortunate...
...some be-monocled old-school diplomat of the Wilhelmstrasse must write them. But Adolf Hitler confronted face to face by a foreigner is also different from Adolf Hitler overpowering a dazzled German. To Berlin last week, hastily summoned from Paris, hurried Paris-Midi's correspondent de luxe, M. Bertrand de Jouvenel, son of the late, great French Senator & Ambassador Henri de Jouvenel. In Paris the Chamber had just voted to ratify a Franco-Soviet military alliance (see p. 18). Herr Hitler did not want it to pass the French Senate and become binding as a possible check on Germany...
Atop this socially conscious volcano is the uneasy seat of President Frederick Bertrand Robinson. Dr. Robinson never tires of asserting that a talented person can succeed equally in any field of endeavor. In support of this theory he boasts that he takes up something new every year - painting, etching, cello playing or swab bing decks on a freighter. In 1933, when pacifists blocked his way to an R. O. T. C. review in the college stadium, he won nationwide notice by belaboring them with his umbrella, later confiding "I think I got twelve" (TIME, June...