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Probably the likeliest explanation lies in the fact that his family were all Elis. In deserting Harvard he is only returning to an original allegiance, stronger than the allegiance Harvard claims...
Through his solicitors in London, venerable Statesman David Lloyd George brayed a "very strong objection" to Trivial Fond Records, a book written by Sir Laurence Guillemard, oldtime British Treasury official. The passage deemed likeliest to have touched in Lloyd George the sensitive pride of all flesh: "He woke us all up at the Treasury, worried us to death, trampled on our most sacred feelings. We often sympathized with Mrs. Lloyd George, who is reported after exceptional provocation to have said that the first time she saw her husband he was in the hands of police and that she sometimes wished...
...they might buy with their profits antique furniture, jewels, paintings, etc. There soon appeared in Manhattan a swank emporium known as the Hammer Galleries, its showcases filled with Sevres vases, jeweled Easter eggs, enameled cups and other bourgeois impedimenta of Tsarist nobility. Knowing the political sympathies of its likeliest customer, the Hammer Galleries plasters its walls with double eagles and other imperial symbols...
Five years ago potent Publisher Alfred Hugenberg, at that time head of an ardent Nationalist Party, was picked by many a wiseacre as the likeliest man to stop the march to power of Adolf Hitler. Publisher Hugenberg was wiser. Even before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Alfred Hugenberg prudently dissolved his own party, loudly and publicly joined the Nazis. Herr Hitler was grateful, for a while, but last week Alfred Hugenberg was forced to resign from his last important job: director of UFA, Germany's largest motion picture company...
...with the ball is still on his way. It contains only three or four All-America prospects. Wilkinson, who played guard last year, is one. Julius Alfonse, who did not play last year, and his co-captain, Tackle Ed Widseth, are others. Minnesota's likeliest halfbacks this year are a pair who, because they played together with phenomenal success at a Minneapolis high school, are now called the "touchdown twins." One is 158-Ib. Rudy Gmitro, who averaged a gain of 15 yd. per play in eight plays last year. The other is Uram, who has been preparing...