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...ability as an educational administrator in his present post. He is known to be an excellent research man and is considered an authority on Conflict of Law and Torts. He is understood to be held in high esteem by members of the Supreme Court. In fact his only drawback would seem to be that he has had no practical legal experience...
Harvard goes to battle tonight without the services of Traff Hicks, and with Ford's charley horse a possible drawback. But Freddy Moseley, without whose services the team beat Me-Gill last week, will be in proper shape tonight, and with Thorny Brown at reserve defence in 'Hicks' place, the Harvard forces should not suffer seriously from lack of man-power...
...Belgium (1924) and at Ottawa when he was appointed first U. S. Minister to Canada (1927), she played a notable part in her husband's career. The wealth of the Phillipses which has opened to him posts which were closed to other career diplomats has also been a drawback, for they have ever found difficulty in securing adequate living quarters. In Brussels they lived for some time in the two front rooms of a pension. When Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes arrived to visit them they had to give up their own beds and find others...
...Drawback to Chicago's present arrangement is the short (five-week) season which makes it impossible to maintain a creditable resident company. Makeshift is to pay for a few big names to bolster up a list of mediocres. For his trump cards this season Longone will present Lehmann in Der Rosenkavalier, Prague's Mila Kocava in her U. S. debut, pretty Helen Jepson as the profligate Thais, the U. S. premiere of Respighi's La Fiamma, the world premiere of Ethel Leginska's Gale with John Charles Thomas singing and the bushy-haired composer conducting...
There was just one drawback: Mr. Davis foresees the possibility that before the end of the next four years, the U. S. Supreme Court may decide that there is no Santa Claus. In the event of such a decision adverse to AAA, he announced...