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...leadership. . . . What has the Mayor of New York done to uncover wrong or to enthrone right? Not one manly, valiant step on his part. Cheap gestures and cheaper words. . . . The affairs of the first city in the world are presided over as if these were a Coney Island Mardi Gras. . . . ! Such a city as New York deserves as mayor a Dwight Morrow, a Thomas Lament, a Herbert Hoover or an Al Smith...
...Translation: An Elizabethan Art" by F.O. Matthiessen '27, instruotor in History and Literature, "Industrial Evolution" by Norman S.B. Gras '12, Straus Professor of Business History, and "The Phoenix Nest," from the pen of H.E. Rollins '17, professor of English, are other works due for an early appearance...
Maurice E. Connolly, onetime president of Queens (one of New York City's five boroughs), convicted of fat fraud in sewer contracts (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), lost his appeal, went to jail for a year. Said he: "Why make a Mardi Gras of it? ... the public loves a victim. . . . I'll serve my sentence with a clear conscience. . . . I'll read a whole bagful of good literature I brought over with...
...driver noticed in another gutter last week a gold medal, returned it in the same way to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. On his goodwill tour of French industrial cities Mr. Edge received the medal (commemorative) at Strassbourg, famed home town of pâté de foie gras (fat goose liver) a French delicacy greatly appreciated by most U. S. citizens...
Bernard Lichtenberg, vice president of the Alexander Hamilton Institute, will speak on "Determination, of the Advertising Appropriation," and short talks will be given by Professors N. S. B. Gras '09, C. F. Taeusch '20, and N. H. Borden...