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Cause Célèbre...
...made formal request to the Supreme Court to reopen the famed de Arrizola case of 1901 on the basis of new evidence in behalf of the plaintiff and proof of forgery presented by the defendant. Alfonso XIII. The move called world attention to a cause célèbre of 20 years ago, to ex-King Alfonso mouse-quiet in Fontainbleau and to the state of the Spanish Republic...
...throwing as a source of youthfully brutal humor* is the college scrubwoman, "goody," "biddy" or "P-lady." Harvard's scrubwomen became a cause célèbre in the winter of 1929 when the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission complained that Harvard had for nine years paid its Widener Library scrubwomen but 35¢ an hour, whereas the legal minimum wage was 37¢. The Treasurer of Harvard University appealed to the State Legislature, pleading that the women were given a 20-minute rest period, not docked for it. Last March, led by Corliss Lament, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, 52 Harvard...
...been the case for the past three years, the Cornell entries in the weight events have been of unusually high cali- bre. This year Weisa in the weight throw, and Levy in the shot are no exceptions, and are slated to take first in their respective events, Captain Crossier of Dartmouth should take second in the weight throw, with P. N. Vonckx '31 a possible Crimson point winner. Bromberg of Dartmouth ought to provide keen competition for Levy in the shot, since both have bettered 45 feet, and their best performances are less than a foot apart. Both of these...
...indication of the heroic optimism which has always characterized the friendly Harold McCormick, was of course unjustified. Ganna Walska achieved, not merely the notoriety which generally attaches to her doings; before she had put foot on the U. S., she became a cause célèbre, a wronged woman, an international affair. In short, she surpassed herself and Harold McCormick's worst presentiments. Ganna Walska arrived with 15 trunks, containing, she said, $2,500,000 worth of personal effects; and when customs officials demanded that she pay duty of approximately $1,000,000 upon these, Ganna Walska...