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Among the Democrats, questions of personality and policy are brought out more clearly. Confusion resulting from chronic Democratic disease, is liable to be their worry again in 1932. The pluralities of Roosevelt and Baker over other Democratic candidates point to these two as the most probable contestants for the party leadership. But local enthusiasm for the League of Nations and Prohibition repeal have in all probability given the former Secretary of War more votes than he will attract in the nation as a whole. It is probable, too, that Harvard students are less susceptible to the sensational appeals of Murray...
...wasted opportunities. Other rarely stated data: An article with photographs of an expedition brings $300 from the National Geographic Magazine. Salaries of men who go exploring for scientific institutions or Government departments "average about $3,000 a year. . . . You can't take out insurance if you are a chronic explorer." Dr. Dickey states that the appearance of a representative of the Rockefeller Foundation is "invariably the signal, about anywhere from Panama to Patagonia, for the small proprietors of land to register their properties as potential deposits of petroleum." Col. Lindbergh...
Died. Hannah Taylor Shipley, 80, founder (with her late sisters. Elizabeth A. and Katherine M.) of the Shipley School for girls, near Philadelphia; of chronic myocarditis; in Atlantic City...
...theory has since been taken up as a vestment of culture by intellectually striving debutantes whose only recollection of "Past and Present" is that it might have been a Vincent Club show of ten years ago. There is something rather dashing and knowing in the statement, "Oh Carlyle-a chronic dyspeptic," particularly if said with a sweep of the salad fork...
...Unrest in Kashmir is practically chronic by reason of the rule of the Hindu Maharajah, Sir Hari Singh, over a population of 3,300,000 which is 95% Moslem. The Maharajah achieved international fame in 1924. as the celebrated "Mr. A" who had been victimized of $750,000 by European blackmailers for consorting with an Englishwoman. Moslems now complain that he shows undue official and political favors to Hindus. By rumor, the Indian Government contemplates vesting control of Kashmir in a council of ministers, equivalent to a regency...