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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next evening, to the oak-paneled throne room of Holyroodhouse, where Bonnie Prince Charlie held court 200 years ago, flocked 500 of Scotland's socially elect to the first royal court Scotland had seen in 34 years. On guard was the Royal Company of Archers in green cloth uniforms embroidered with golden thistles. The King now in his scarlet, gold & blue uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Guards, but still with the Order of the Thistle, the Queen wearing a gold brocade gown and a diamond-&-ruby tiara * received over 200 Scottish debutantes who were thus spared...
...Board of Visitors & Governors of little St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. That unconventional gesture was President Hutchins' way of showing that he is a good loser. For St. John's had just reached to take from under his nose, in the persons of President-elect Stringfellow Barr and Dean-elect Scott Buchanan, two educators whom Chicago drafted last year from the University of Virginia to help Educator Hutchins with his projected revival of the traditional liberal arts college course. Now Educator Hutchins was willing to help Educators Barr and Buchanan with their projected revival...
...contemporary world a creation that has never been surpassed in its political genius!" Monroe held, among other things, that a "republic is and always will be the invariable form of all governments in America," postulated the Argentine Foreign Minister. "Five countries of America, including our own. are about to elect new governments.*... It is NOT true that our Constitutions must be changed to adapt them to certain idealisms! . . . Monroe set up a retaining dam against any tendency ... to disturb the republican principles and existing political regimes in the Americas...
Dean Mary Ashby Cheek, President-elect of Rockford College . . . . .LL.D...
Largely attended by oldsters, last week's Modern Woodmen convention at Chicago's Stevens Hotel was a colorless affair where little was done but review finances, re-elect the man who has headed the order since 1903-Adolphus Robert Talbot. Big-featured President Talbot is a 78-year-old lawyer who was once the partner of William Jennings Bryan. A strait-laced Methodist, he does not smoke, drink, chew or play cards. Having fathered two daughters and a son, he lives with his wife in Lincoln, Neb., likes to putter with flowers. His chief boast: neither the Modern...