Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...servants, play golf and work crossword puzzles, castigates King Edward in words applicable either to His Majesty's keeping company with Mrs. Simpson or to the Sovereign's skimpy attendance at Church. "In his public capacity at his Coronation he stands for the English people's idea of Kingship!" booms the Bishop. "[The King] needs the grace of God. . . . We hope he is aware of his need! Some of us wish he gave more positive signs of such awareness." (In sending this out British Press associations suggest that editors tone it down by omissions. Next...
Francis Lederer, romantic matinee idol of women from Radcliffe to Paris, Manhattan to Vienna, has not always been such. Once a floor-washer in Prague for $1.20 a week, he, today, has a tremendous interest in promoting world peace and preventing wars. To advance the idea, he has founded, and is supporting, a World Peace Federation...
...Lederer became imbued with the peace idea, when as a youth of sixteen in Czechoslovakia, he saw the horrors of the late World War. He immediately tried to reason the whole problem out, and arrived at the conclusion that the people don't want war, that in times of crises they are easily led, merely tools in the hands of politicians and munitions makers. Today, the nations of the world are spending 81 per cent of their incomes for armament, and according to him, the people deriving benefits are not the nations themselves, but greedy individuals growing sleek...
Music will be provided by the House Orchestra under the direction of David H. Kimball '39, assisted by the House Glee Club, combined with part of the Radcliffe Glee Club. Manager of the entire show is Edward L. Barnes '38, who is responsible for the original idea...
Professor Coolidge was the originator of the idea, and no other House has so far given evidence of adopting the scheme...