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...talk. While drovin' and delvin' into de subject of Prohibition, I digs up plenty of data- not disa and dat-a-but data, data. And what do I find out, I'm askin' you? I finds out that I didn't have anyt'ing to do wit' passing dis Eighteent' Amendment. ... I finds out dat none of my friends has anyt'ing to do wit' it. So I don't see how dey ever could have passed it in de first place...
...society editor is Olga Gel- hause of the Bulletin. No socialite, she rarely goes to parties, rarely even has to telephone. Submitted material from the Best Families floods her desk. The presence of Judith Jennings, daughter of a prominent Germantown minister, on the Record has brought that liberal, crusad- ing, sometimes vulgar sheet into homes which never admitted it before. Washington's elegant society editors include no dictator; all are accustomed to having their hands kissed by Latin Ambassadors. The city's social news is reported in the manner of a court gazette. The President, members...
...room at No. 1 Federal Street, Boston, where the directors of potent, far-flung United Fruit Co. were holding a meeting. Down on the long table in front of his old enemy, President Victor Macomber Cutter, he flung a handful of proxies. Said he: "You've been --ing up this business long enough. I'm going to straighten it out." The Bostonian directorate was profoundly and properly shocked. Nevertheless, before they adjourned they had created a new office- Managing Director in Charge of Operations-and elected Samuel Zemurray to fill...
Rene Lefevre, who played the leading ing role in "Le Million," which was presented by the committee last year, takes the part of the young traveler in "Cinq Gentilhommes Maudits." Barry Baur, the Fault Jannings of the French stage who plays the lead in "David Golder," which will be produced later in the year, is cast as the genial host in the coming film. The role of the heroine is portrayed by Rose Dercan. Jacques Ibert composed the music, which aids greatly in the interpretation of the story
...president of the University of Michigan; Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, official Harvard historian who, like Dr. Little, might be considered too liberal. A generation of students have known Abbott Lawrence Lowell as a frostily friendly man, now white-haired, white-mustached, pouchy-eyed, who putters about the Yard hello-ing everybody. Wearing always a low stiff collar and an oldtime high-cut jacket, he carries like all good Bostonians a green bookbag, is always accompanied by "Phantom," a blind old spaniel that has to be guided across busy streets by the crook of Dr. Lowell's cane. Harvardmen know...