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...eager was impetuous Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. to meet the S. S. Carinthia, inbound from Nassau, that he could not wait until the ship docked at Manhattan. Assisted by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, he arranged for a Coast Guard automobile to carry him to Floyd Bennett Field. There, swaddled in a heavy flying suit and parachute, he boarded a Coast Guard amphibian which shortly deposited him beside the harbor tug Manhattan in the lower bay off Quarantine. Taken to the Carinthia by the tug, he bounded blithely up the gangway, scowled blackly when he ran square into a bevy...
...husband's, Mrs. Davies now has other outlets for her amazing talents. She could, if she would, back her prospective step-son-in-law, Senator Tydings, who is rated Presidential timber for the Democratic nomination in 1940. Last week, however, she merely whisked her new husband off to Nassau, there to board her Sea Cloud for a honeymoon cruise...
Johannes A. C. Fagginger Auer, Professor of Church History and Parkman Professor of Theology, has been made by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands a member of the order of Orange Nassau. Professor Auer is a native of the Netherlands. He came to the United States in 1902, and, with the exception of two years when he served as pastor of liberal churches in the Netherlands, has been in this country over since. He has been on the Harvard Faculty since 1928. He is also Professor of Philosophy and Church History at the Crane Theological School, Tufts College, Mass...
Flashing to the front in the last hundred yards of the H-Y-P cross country meet. Captain Bob Playfair ghosted by Woodland of Yale to finish the course at Nassau in record-smashing, time, while his team-mates rolled out a 25-30 victory over Eli yesterday and a similar total for the separately scored Princeton duel...
...previous years, Harvard has found the hilly course at Nassau a frequent Waterloo, as the flat lay-out along the Charles had given the Mikkolamen no preparation for the gruelling hill-and-dale affair of the Tigermen. This year, however, Coach Jaakko had his men working out on the Brookline Country Club roughs and fairways, building up a stamina which proved the winning factor for the race...