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...teams, fraternities nor student proms. Undergraduate amusements are far more individual. Not long ago Students André Sarved, Paul de Rivaudier and Lucien Hoch sat behind a mounting tower of saucers at a Montparnasse café table and decided that French deputies, who were then shouting themselves into a lather over payment of War Debts to the U. S., were appallingly ignorant of U. S. life, geography, institutions...
Florida. Though Brooklyn-born and Yale-educated, Governor David ("Dave") Sholtz, 41, boosts his state like a native. Round-faced and jovial, he is a Daytona Beach lawyer, an Elk, a Mason, an American Legionary, a Rotarian. His campaign speeches drew men from barbers' chairs with lather still on their faces...
While the Senate Finance Committee was sweating over the 1932 Revenue Act to up taxes and balance the Budget, the House of Representatives last week worked itself into a lather of revolt on legislation to cut government costs for the same purpose...
...French journalists, whose deliberately provocative and skillfully insinuated ideas are apt to upset any Conference, got the statesmen at Geneva into a lather by "announcing" the "un-offcial suggestion"' from "high sources" that Japan be entrusted by the League with a mandate over Manchuria. Such journalistic ideas sometimes become facts. But the French press-playboys were so delighted with their furore that they next announced: "Japan is going to be given a mandate over all China...
...dark. Wall Street attempted to take over-with the predictable result that last week the bankruptcy became official. A loss of about $3,000,000 was disclosed. So Lee Shubert, who always keeps a large red apple on his desk, insists that barbers shave him with glycerine instead of lather, was put back in charge of his own company, this time as a receiver. The other receiver is Irving Trust...