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...refuse to be used as a false premise from which are drawn conclusions probably equally false, i refuse to be a sacrificial goat for, of all people, the Class of 1911 to pile on their own abysmal mediocrities. I am not now, and never have been a member of that dismal class. Thank God, I am 1910, and I suggest that if 1911 wants to wash its own very dirty linen in public, it at least abstain from splashing its cleaner neighbors...
...Bolsheviks in his ears would then be sent Ambassador Graf Friedrich von der Schulenburg, an exasperatingly bland German. No matter what insults Soviet newsorgans hurl at Hitler week after week, Schulenburg is never instructed to protest, turns up smiling at Bolshevik receptions, refuses to let Communists get his goat...
...people," roared John Lewis, "if all they have to depend on in the future is that degree of consideration which will come from this little man out in Topeka, Kans., who has no more conception nor idea of what ails America or what to do about it than a goat herder in the hills of Bulgaria." A significant prophecy by President George Berry: "There will be a new political alignment before the 1940 election. I conceive it important that we who are opposed to the return of reaction . . . should prepare ourselves to meet the inevitable and not again accept crumbs...
...married within a year. In 1934 Miss Astor's parents, who evidently regarded their daughter as a speculative investment, complained in court that she had failed to keep them in luxury (TIME, April 2, 1934). Pacified with an extra-legal settlement, the old folks retired to a goat ranch near Hollywood. Meanwhile, Mary Astor's and Franklyn Thorpe's child was born, named Marylyn...
...National League baseballers: the annual All-Star game against the American League, 4-to-3; in Boston. Hero of the game was Pitcher Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals, who faced only nine batters in three innings, gave no hits; "goat" was famed Outfielder Joseph Paul Di Maggio of the New York Yankees, who fumbled one ball, missed another, batted five times without getting...