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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt's letter to the clergy became painfully plain when it was discovered that his secretariat had plagiarized almost word-for-word from an appeal sent to Wisconsin pastors last March by Governor Philip Fox La Follette. That the secretariat had muffed the preparation of a mailing list of "representative clergymen" was revealed not only by the Eaton incident but by a Kansas City preacher who announced that twelve copies of the letter had reached his church, one for every pastor who had ever tended the flock. That President Roosevelt himself had made a serious political mistake...
...political bookmaker has yet failed to enter on his list of dark horses for the GOPresidential nomination race in 1936 the name of that bookish Hamiltonian, Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan. Since the Senator sailed for Europe last month, stable gossip has been to the effect that he would fill out his entry blank as soon as he returned. Last week in New York harbor newshawks cornered him when his ship reached Quarantine, stood with pencils ready...
...would mutually assist League States whose trade suffers from such self-denial. Blocked was a British move to have the League propose that its States sell nothing to Italy. On French initiative Geneva proposed instead that "key products" required as war materials be not sold to Italy and the list of these adopted as "Proposal No. 4" was surprisingly short. One "key product": mules...
...often told him before, that all Austria's private armies must be consolidated as a militia. As usual, Major Fey refused. Thereupon, the Chancellor handed President Miklas the Cabinet's resignations. Called right back to form a new Cabinet, Herr Schuschnigg had his list ready. It omitted Major Fey & friends. When Fey saw loyal Starhemberg Heimwehr regiments filling Vienna streets, he knew Starhemberg...
Groton is an inbred school. When a son s born to an old Grotonian, the happy news is wired to the Rector, who enters the child on the list of favored applicants. Result is that out of a student body permanently fixed at 180 boys, 94 are sons of alumni. Brighter than these are apt to be the ten boys admitted each year by competitive examination. Groton's scholastic standing is high, partly because it drills for College Board Examinations...