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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WHEN the Freshman Committee of the Student Council made public its list of candidates in the primaries yesterday morning, they announced that there were 27 candidates, and the CRIMSON took their word for it and printed the list...
Last night when the list was to be printed again there were only 26 names. But it seemed to include every name in the previous list. The Committee voted to take the matter to the offices of the department of Physic Research, but at the last moment somebody announced that he had counted the original list over and found that there were only 26 names on that, and that the Freshman Committee (of one) had miscounted...
...list of Franklin Roosevelt's noteworthy qualifications for his difficult job, one that should not be overlooked is his amazing capacity for sustaining the antics which Washington's otherwise highly judicious newspapermen consider to be comic. Rated according to ordinary standards, many a quarter-hour of the semiannual Gridiron Club shows displays a lack of grace, pertinence and dexterity sufficient to horrify the least critical beholder. Gridiron Club high jinks are by no means the only such doings by which the President's endurance is regularly tested. Last week, his principal social relaxation after five working days...
...triumph of exposition was this notable simplification of a balance sheet. "Very simply," he said, "it is a statement of what we own, what we owe and what we are worth. ... It is exactly the same as if you took two sheets of paper and on one listed the cash you have, the value of your home, car and furniture, and the dollar 'Bill Jones' owes you. On the other sheet you list what you owe the grocer . . . what you owe on your car. Then subtract what you owe from what you own. The result is what...
Great Portraits. Last week some 2,000 Manhattanites spent the price of a movie to see what some critics considered the most stunning show of the year. Arranged by a long list of socialite sponsors for the benefit of the public Education Association of New York, it was correctly entitled "Great Portraits from Impressionism to Modernism." In the lofty, skylit galleries of Wildenstein & Co. visitors saw 48 selected masterpieces by Cezanne, Manet, Renoir, Gauguin, van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Marie Laurencin, Matisse, Derain, Pascin, Picasso, Modigliani. Visitors who regarded any of these reputations as unfounded were quickly disabused...