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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Draft Doumergue!" urged many of the President's advisers. Seemingly, popular ex-President Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue was not unwilling to be drafted. Writing coyly from retirement in L'lntransigeant last week he said: "I repeat only what I hear repeated by good folk as they labor in our countryside. . . . Our good people believe-and they are right-that there is a sufficient number of talented men in Parliament to carry the nation through the present, and even through more difficult times. But these talented men must first come to an understanding...
Those who were amazed recently at the disclosure by Sing Sing's chaplain that the Ossining Bastile harbored many a college graduate are due for another shock when they contemplate the presence of an alleged gentleman swindler on the Harvard faculty. It was bad enough to hear that men who had been higher-educated were slipping from the primrose path in some numbers; it is considerably worse to find that those who are hired to nurture them so carefully are often no better than they should...
...aside from all these mundane returns, there is that inward satisfaction which comes to men of a type when they see their productions in print. To write an editorial, to see it in print, to hear it discussed and to remain anonymous,--there is all the thrill that any man could desire. And the price is not too great; for most men who try the grade find that a more careful account of their time and closer concentration when actually studying result in marks as good if not better than were customary before entering the competition...
...Colbert was to be seen fluttering across a screen version (Tonight is Ours) of one of Playwright Coward's most dismal failures, The Queen Was in the Parlour. Wherever he went last year-with the possible exception of the Brazilian jungles-during an enviably carefree junket, he could hear tunes he had written for Bittersweet, and the more recent Words & Music simpering from phonographs and radios. With his own two hands, long head and (when he danced and sang for This Year of Grace in 1928-29) nimble feet and voice he has made a comfortable fortune. In London...
Harvard undergraduates who contemplate entering the Foreign Service of the United States after graduation from college are offered an opportunity today to hear about this kind of work from Pierre de Lagarde Boal. Charge d'Affaires at Ottawa, Canada. Boal is to conduct an informal meeting for all men interested at 4.30 o'clock in the Lowell House tower room on the sixth floor of F entry...