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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past week, the American has printed three stories, all maliciously untrue to begin a campaign which as its end obviously has the routing of Mr. Hicks from the University. They first trumped up the issue by stating that local patriotic organizations once more were decrying the Hicks appointment. The second implied that as a counsellor Mr. Hicks advocated the reading of Communist books. The third quoted the President of the Student Council as saying that this body would take action on a "controversy" entirely manufactured by the American...
...learned canon, Cedric Hardwicke acted with strength, irony, and restraint. Julie Haydon, playing Brigid, was naive and simple in a part which in less skilled hands might verge on Baby Snooks. And although Lloyd Gough overplayed the rebel pedagogue, Sara Allgood, uproariously funny as Miss Jemima Cooney, (a local spinster), and a superb cast more than made...
...Dealers as far separated geographically as Florida's Senator Pepper and Oklahoma's Senator Thomas have taken off their hats to it in their primary campaigns. But realistic Republicans have been the most alert in reaching for the ready-made local blocks of votes which have been quietly assembled by Townsend National Recovery Plan headquarters in Chicago...
...Kelly Tribune, permitted to scoop its competitors on the Committee's findings, identified it as consisting of "100 representative Chicagoans." The anti-Kelly News, remembering that the mayor invited local bigwigs to join such a committee last June, produced a better scoop. Only 30 had joined and of these 23 had never seen the report. "I didn't attend any meetings," said puzzled President Frank Cunningham of Butler Bros...
Last week St. Louis' celebrated Egyptian Cat Case (TIME, Aug. 22), a row fiddled up by local newspapers over the City Art Museum's expensive purchase of an Egyptian bronze, came to an end when the city Board of Aldermen voted 25-to-3 not to interfere with the museum or its funds...