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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference is designed to give the undergraduates who participate the greatest possible opportunity to find out how public problems are handled. Direct contact with men who shape the nation's destiny from day to day will prove as stimulating as a dozen text books. With the three estates of faculty, business, and officialdom mixed together at round tables, the clash of conflicting opinion will open fresh and fertile fields of thought to all concerned. Furthermore, since all remarks are to be "off the record", the discussions should bring to light private feelings and convictions, unpublished in the press, which will...
...Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy resigned from the British Cabinet. Reason: He had nothing to do. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin regretfully accepted the resignation. The bluest of blood and the highest of brows has Lord Eustace Percy. The seventh son of the seventh Duke of Northumberland, he is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror's chieftain, William ("als Gernons"*) de Percy. A brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, he has served in the Ministry of Health and the Foreign Office, was President of the Board of Education from 1924 to 1929. He is still, a Governor of the Imperial College...
...Edward VII had the decency to protest against the Oath against Transubstantiation. In reward for his courage in that matter, he died a Catholic. Having made that point-blank statement, perhaps I had better add that I will not enter into any controversy on the matter. But I have direct, authentic reliable inside information on the matter which I could not as a journalist obtain permission to publish. But you may put it down as a fact-Edward VII died a Catholic...
...mile line between Las Animas and Amarillo, Tex. which was originally approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1930 and completed as far as Boise City- 121 miles-in 1931. Thus after five years the Santa Fe will soon succeed in connecting Denver with western Texas by a direct route saving as much as 226 miles on traffic north & south...
Edmonds has a clear, direct style which is interesting without being marred by emotional excitement. The military campaigns have been carefully diagramed to help the layman understand each situation and only a minimum attempt is made to analyze the character of his subject. "The Seven Pillars" has thoroughly covered the philosophy of its author and Edmonds was wise in letting well enough alone. Perhaps the most interesting part of the little book is the explanation of the "Lawrence Legend" which is ascribed almost entirely to the fertile mind of Lowell Thomas and which grew to such proportions that as late...