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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next morning 'Nicholas Spicer' learned that two policemen were on the lookout for the man who struck Billy Patterson. . . . His distaste for legal proceedings caused him to lay the case before a friend at the hotel. . . . This gentleman engaged two newsboys to traverse the streets of the city, asking every person old or young, 'Who struck Billy Patterson?' The policemen soon retired, but the question was caught up by hundreds of lips, and the query soon found a place in the daily journals, whence it spread with electric rapidity through all parts of the Union...
...station the President handshook his friend Fred Botts, "dean" of the Warm Springs Foundation. "I'll be back for Thanksgiving," he said, "with provisos." He went up the ramp to the platform of his private car. The send-off crowd hushed itself, to hear his words of farewell. Franklin Roosevelt grinned his broadest and said: "I'll be back in the fall-if we don't have...
...James M. Helm, an old friend who was with the first Mrs. Wilson at the White House, is her social secretary: arranges formal functions, seating lists, invitations, decorations. The King & Queen's visit will crown her career...
...worldly types caught on a remote mountain in Europe as war breaks out all around them. There is the villainous munitions manufacturer and his actress mistress, formerly a vaudeville performer in America and now posing as a Russian Countess. Clark Gable represents the cabbages as Harry Van, hoofer and friend of the Countess. The tone of Sherwood's play has been lowered to suit the taste of the multitude, and a happy ending weakens the plot. But this is one the whole a superior picture...
Paul A. Freund, Law '81, special assistant to the attorney-general, probably will join the Law School faculty in September, a close friend revealed today...