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TIME, April 29 (National Affairs, "Death of De Boe") unfairly calls Mr. Phil Hanna "a professional executioner . . . from Illinois," unkindly cuts his visage three-quarters away in the accompanying picture of ''Robber-not a Rapist'' De Boe. No professional, no executioner, Mr. Hanna is a gentleman farmer who lives on land that has been in the family since 1808. . . . He has assisted at some 65 hangings (he does not recall the exact number), has never sprung a trap. Years ago, the revolting sight of a public strangulation as a result of an incorrectly tied noose...
...political tutor was his uncle, Henry De La Warr Flood, who in Woodrow Wilson's time was Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In the same era Harry Byrd was a freshman in the Virginia State Senate. He did not smoke and he did not drink (to this day his good natured brother Tom generally takes two drinks when they are passed, saying, "this is mine and this is Harry's") and he was not spectacular. But the time came when he led the Democrats in the State Senate and soundly trounced C. Bascom Slemp...
...Jubilee procession (see p. 21), Patiala rode in a State carriage behind his King, together with His Majesty's other Honorary Indian Aides-de-Camp: H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, H. H. the Maharaja of Bikaner and the Nawab Malik Sir Umar Hayat Khan. In this attendance on the King Emperor the kings find their highest prestige. Because the Maharaja of Bikaner is today the Prince in waiting to George V of the Indian Empire, he plans to stop in London for a year. English friends call him "The Englishman," their highest praise. Last week...
...Excepting President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State, who stayed home from the Royal Silver Jubilee (see above), the other Premiers of the British dominions took loyal high tea last week with Prime Minister MacDonald...
...Medical School the Whitman Fellowship for study at the Ecole de Medicine de Paris was awarded to Dr. Jacob Fine '20 M.D. 1924, now instructor in surgery at the Medical School