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...hasten to assure my many followers that last week I was only fooling. What I was really thinking of when I predicted 20-13 was that it will take 20 years for me to make 13 false predictions. This week my famous intellect has been exercised with utmost effort and accuracy, so lesser sages will turn Green with envy...
...said: "It is as unsportsmanlike and contemptible as any performance of a great State of which I have ever seen or heard. ... If the Stock Exchange so much as dares to put through this tax-dodging scheme to help deprive the unemployed of food and shelter it will only hasten the day of Federal regulation. . . ." Mayor O'Brien paid a stentorian tribute to himself and friends, declared they never wavered in their duty to "the great suffering masses of the City...
...have read with indignation the article entitled "Rollins Rumpus.'' I have been a Rollins student last year and hasten to inform you that the opinion printed in this article voices the sentiment of, I believe, by actual count, 1/25th of the student body who call themselves liberalists and contribute to the college about nothing but destructive criticism and adolescent judgment-for instance, asking that one of their number be made one of the trustees was one of their brilliant ideas, a 19-year-old trustee! MARY ELIZABETH RANSOM...
Host & Hostess. At Swarthmore this week many a Rhodesman would hasten to shake the hand of Sir Francis Wylie. He, a wrinkled onetime philosophy don, never forgets the name, college and home town of a Rhodes Scholar. Once he presented 250 Rhodesmen to Edward of Wales, remembered them all. Lady Wylie always presided at tea, had every Scholar to dinner once a year. Sir Francis, wise and tactful, was knighted in 1929 for his Rhodes work. In 1931 the current crop of Rhodesmen gave the Wylies a silver salver, a scroll, a dining room suite...
...Federal courts, unlike some state courts, veniremen may be questioned as a group as well as singly, the judge often taking part to hasten matters. Seldom is more than an hour taken in selecting a jury. Not so in this case. Mr. Steuer approaches the jury box and in a suave, confidential manner breathes an inaudible question, stands stiff waiting for an answer, relaxes when it comes, cogitates gently, whispers another query. Says the Judge: "Mr. Steuer, will you speak a little louder?" More whispered queries. The Judge motions the court stenographers to move their table to Mr. Steuer...