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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delegates include: President Conant; Dean Hanford; Dean Landis of the Law School; Arthur N. Holcombe, Chairman of the Department of Government; Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library; Heinrich Bruening, lecturer in Government and ex-chancellor of Germany; Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson Professor of Physiology; Frank W. Taussig, Henry Lee Professor of Economics emeritus; and Granville Hicks, counsellor in American History...
...Editor of the magazine, John I. B. McCulloch, is a graduate student hero in the field of Inter-American relations, and the Managing Editor, Frank P. Davidson '38, was founder and first president of the "Harvard Guardian...
Oklahomans are hardened to school scandals. Two former Oklahoma City School Board officials were sentenced to prison, Treasurer Ray Scruggs for stealing some $500,000 of school money, Attorney Frank Wilkins (now out on bond while his conviction is appealed) for taking bribes in connection with sale of oil royalties on school property. Last summer a grand jury recommended the ouster of all nine members of Oklahoma City's School Board, charging, among other things, that the board had failed to take sealed competitive bids for extermination of termites infesting a school building. Unflustered by this departure from Oklahoma...
Howe-is a short, sharp, outspoken Yankee who looks a good deal like an Englishman himself. While he was editing Living Age, he became convinced that British-American antagonism was growing. War debts, the Ottawa agreement, books like Frank Hanighen's The Secret War for Oil strengthened his conviction. In his book, the U. S. teems with British propagandists and secret agents; the English Speaking Union manipulates U. S. public opinion; and, according to Sir Wilmot Lewis, Mr. Howe sees an Englishman under every...
When "You Can't Take It With You" hit Broadway, it was more or less what the title indicates, a whimsical little comedy, faintly defeatist, emphasizing the fact that shrouds don't have pockets. In the capable hands of Frank Capra, this negative moral was moulded into a powerful eulogy on the value of Friendship. One of the most stirring scenes is that in which Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore) is fined $100 and scores of equally penniless friends take up a collection in court...