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...short, swart Congressman La Guardia. The La Guardia corpuscles, and many a La Guardia constituent, are Latin. Mr. La Guardia arose to defend the fame of that late great Latin, Christopher Columbus. "The House,'' he cried, "ought not to attempt to write history." While expressing 'the greatest admiration and love and affection for the people of Iceland." he clung to the "tangible historical record of the discovery by Columbus...
Most facile of writers is debonair Paul Reboux, editor, dramatic critic, parodist and bon vivant, author of The Little Papa-coda, Romulus Cuckoo, Colin, or the Tropical Voluptuaries. Among his other works, nimble Critic Reboux has paid homage to France's national sport and greatest glory, Gastronomy, by publishing a cook book, Plats Nouveaux...
...Seminary, who recently married Col. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow; Bishop James Cannon Jr.; Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Outstanding among laymen were Swarthmore's Philosopher-Professor Jesse Herman Holmes and President Frank A. Home of Merchants' Refrigerating Co., Methodist Board of Missions, often referred to as the "greatest lay Methodist...
...people. . . . This great country for many years has been building up enormous industries, and it has learned that if it is to succeed in rivaling the same kind of industries in other lands, it must take into consideration the ingredient which gives many of them their greatest value?the quality of art. It has only now determined upon that rivalry. It has now come to the point of desiring to excel in this quality of art as well as in technical, mechanical, or practical excellence, to which it has bent all of its endeavors heretofore...
...high spots in the record of a single year's routine at the Harvard Library. Other chapters could be written, that would be less spectacular but just as full of every-day human interest and quite as important for the all around development of the Library as the greatest of all collections for the prosecution of productive scholarship, as well as for the education of young Americans. More significant than anything else in this record, however, is the fact that nothing has happened in 1928-29 which is not likely to be matched, and maybe bettered...