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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Higgins is survived by his mother and a brother, James. While in college, he lived in Kirkland House, moving in there the first year than it was built. He was a member or Hasty Pudding...
...half years of existence it had been generally ridiculed or ignored by the Administration. Yet its hand-picked membership includes many a New Deal friend, including Glassman John D. Biggers, Camelman S. Clay Williams, Investment Banker Sidney J. Weinberg, Merchant Lincoln Filene, Mail Order Man Robert E. Wood. Only member absent last week was Shipman Kermit Roosevelt, son of the President's fifth cousin...
...votes were unanimous by show of hands, accompanied by rousing cheers. By this means the Supreme Soviet, before adjourning sine die, elected the Praesidium. This body of 37 members is not a cabinet. Indeed, members of the Russian Cabinet, called the Council of People's Commissars, are barred from the Praesidium. Stalin- not a member of the Cabinet, therefore eligible-was elected an ordinary member of the Praesidium. Although "where Stalin sits is the head of the table," amiable old Mikhail Kalinin was elected chairman of the Praesidium, i. e., "President of Russia...
Some weeks ago Big Red Planner Mezhlauk quietly disappeared and so did his brother Ivan, a member of the Higher School Commission. Another Big Red who disappeared during 1937 was the Russian Commissar for Finance Grigoriy Grinko. Not one of the 1,143 deputies of the Supreme Soviet who elected the new Council asked any questions last week about Mezhlauk, about Grinko, about any of the other Big Reds who continue to disappear, put away by Stalin's Secret Political Police. They also asked no questions about the Government's policies or plans...
...Pacific Coast Conference (comprising ten colleges) has the No. 1 basketball team, the No. 1 crew and the No. 1 football team in the U. S. this year. A little self-conscious about the perennial charges of subsidization directed overtly and covertly at some of its members, the Pacific Coast Conference last week decided to find out just how professional it really is. That the member colleges did not exactly trust one another was evidenced by the researcher they chose to investigate their affairs: pug-nosed Edwin N. Atherton, onetime G-man and recent head of San Francisco...