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With an Astor, a Mellon, a Widener, a Baruch, a Pulitzer, two Du Ponts and many another notable, Franklin Roosevelt last week attended his first Gridiron Club dinner as President of the U. S. From the seat of honor in the Willard Hotel ballroom he watched Washington correspond- ents royally "roast" his New Deal in song and skit. Burlesqued before him was "a wonderland from which men in hair shirts have been expelled by men in asbestos pants." With a high wide grin he saw himself welcomed into the peerage of dictators by Russia's Stalin, Italy...
...deeply believed in the common words of flattery always given to America and was evolving out of them a philosophy of American life. He risked his popularity and his re-election to stand by his beliefs. It was unfortunate that the actualities to which his beliefs correspond had vanished from America a generation before." Seldes thinks public opinion in the last three years has gone far to catch up to the facts: "The years from 1929 to 1933 were, for America, a succession of breaking idols and abandoned faiths, some of them the notions of willful children, some deeply ingrained...
Yale's first attempt at synchronized reading periods has met with little favor on the part of the undergraduates. If it is not unlikely that the qualify of the work accomplished during the past two weeks will correspond to the general opinion concerning the value of the periods...
...much use has been made of the victrola which has been installed since the beginning of the year, that a second one has been acquired and placed in the Junior Common room. Recordings correspond to a list compiled by the Carnegie Foundation as an ideal representative group for use in colleges. Half the records have already arrived while the others, many of which are being sent from Europe, will be here soon. In connection with the phonograph records, Lowell House has also received a set of over 150 miniature scores, which may be read while listening to the records...
...hired by Tennessee Publisher Luke Lea & son to get their North Carolina conviction for conspiracy and misapplication of bank funds reviewed by the U. S. Supreme Court, Lawyer Baker secured from Chief Justice Hughes an extension of time to file a petition. †New Jersey's freeholders correspond to county supervisors...