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...dramatize the issue, it had managed to present to the electorate these facts and allegations: Twenty-five members of the police department have criminal records, and the acting chief had served a term in the penitentiary; burglary insurance rates are the highest of any city in the country; Conrad Mann, president of the Chamber of Commerce and good friend of Herbert Hoover, was saved from serving five months in a Federal House of Detention on a lottery conviction by a pardon from President Roosevelt (TIME...
...lecture to be given by Conrad Aiken in the Poetry Room of Widener Library at 4.30 this afternoon will be postponed to the same time next week on account of illness...
...widower, there a noisy and witch-rapping harridan, Mrs. Peterkin has skillfully given a convincing portrayal of the community as a whole. The best of the individual portraits is that of the old negro foreman, whose duty it is to see that all runs smoothly on the plantation. Like Conrad's Nostromo among the cargadores, he stands erect and aloof from his fellows. His contempt for the "pobuckras," as the negroes term white people of mean extraction, is equalled only by the amused disdain in which he holds Yankees and other commercial persons. The little white church in the grove...
...yard breaststroke--Won by John R. Little '36; second, Conrad C. Jamison '34 (W); third, Wilfrid C. Barton ocC. (A). Time...
...thousands of "mysterious cylinders, maps of prevailing winds, nose-blankets of cottonwool," showing how completely by surprise the first gas attack took the Allied military and intelligence forces in 1915. As to acting, the show is put over, as so many European ones are, by that arch-villain, Conrad Veidt. When America has brought that competent film star of Hollywood its movie personnel will be complete...