Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York's "Jimmy" has a growing fondness for things money can buy. As William F. Kenny was ready to give his last of a multi-million nickels to help his friend Alfred Emanuel Smith, so Publisher Paul Block (Newark Star-Eagle, Brooklyn Standard Union, Toledo Blade, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Duluth Herald) seldom counts the change where his friend. Mayor Walker, is concerned. The Mayor spends more nights and mornings in the Block suite at the Ritz than he does in his personal bed on St. Luke's place...
...renomination and election of Mayor Walker would mean that the City of New York would continue to be run by Charles F. Kerrigan, his able "assistant." This onetime newsgatherer absorbs all the technicalities of municipal government, digests heavy reports, arranges backstage decisions, plants in the alert trial-lawyer mind of the Mayor the few essential facts on which to base his official acts. The Mayor's secretary, Charles Hand, another newsgatherer, serves chiefly as the Walker stage-manager for social and political events...
None of the 28 deputies noticed that the old Poldavian name of Lamidaeff might read "I'Ami d'A. F."-"the friend of A. F.," "the friend of L'Action Française" famed royalist newspaper of which the editor is Leon Daudet, bon vivant, practical jokester, son of famed Author Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon), exile from the republic he has so consistently lampooned (TIME, June 13, 1927, et seq.). Three days after the 28 gullible deputies replied to the "Poldavian Minister," a special edition of L'Action Française appeared...
...yard run--Won by N. P. Hallowell '32, second, N. F. Bacon, Jr. '32; third A. C. Forbes '32. Time...
First University--Stroke, P. H. Watts '31; 7, W. T. Emmett '29; 6, B. J. Harrison '29; 5, Allerton Cushman '29; 4, F. A. Clark '29; 3, L. W. Dickey '30; 2, C. McK. Norton '29; bow, James Lawrence, Jr. '29; cox, L. L. Wadsworth...