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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus it was that when Iowa's votes were counted, it seemed to matter little that a lot of other candidates were nominated for a lot of other offices; that former Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson beat Representative Lloyd Thurston for the Republican nomination for Senator. Looming with a significance precisely equal to what others of other States might read into it was the Democratic Senatorial result: Gillette over Wearift by about 2-to-1. Three other Democratic candidates polled negligible votes...
Splitting the vacated positions, the Prime Minister last week appointed as Secretary to the Cabinet Edward E. Bridges, civil servant and son of the late Poet Laureate Robert Bridges; as Clerk of the Privy Council Sir Rupert Howorth, former Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet; and as secretary to the powerful Committee of Imperial Defense, Colonel Hastings L. Ismay, heretofore Deputy Secretary...
Long a friend of Adolf Hitler, troublesome Unity recently announced she would become a naturalized German citizen. She was hoarse-voiced cheering the Führer's entry to Vienna. She and her blonde, pro-German elder sister, the former Mrs. Bryan W. Guinness, few months ago were toasted by Field Marshal Goring as "with Frau Goring the most perfect Aryan women I have ever seen...
Sailing next week for two months' skiing in the Andes, a group of Harvard men, most of whom were former members of the Crimson skiing team, will make an expedition to Chile in South America...
...blast at the heebie-jeebies of suburban life, Ogden Nash serenely continues to steamroller the Muses to the delight of all spectators. His poetry, which has now come to represent a new genre of versification, is more rambling and full of humorous digressions than ever. As in his former books, he mutilates metre and rhythm with gusto, but here he is more successful in his butchery of poetic principle, for his creations are bristling with original, biting observations that have the reader chuckling at every line. Only infrequently does he lapse, inevitably perhaps, into frequently does he lapse, inevitably perhaps...