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Four others will be enabled to travel abroad next fall as holders of Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowships. They are Ralph Philip Boas, Jr. '33, of Norton; Richard Poate Stebbins '33, of Newton Centre; John Coert Campbell '33, of Bronxiville. New York; and Winfield Adelbert Huppuch '33, of Glens Falls, New York...
...motored to the Capitol on March 4 for the inaugural of his successor, President Hoover turned anxiously to Franklin Roosevelt with a personal patronage problem. It had to do with Walter Hughes Newton of the White House secretariat. Born & bred in Minneapolis, Mr. Newton had been elected in 1918 to the House where by his wits he had worked himself up to a position of Republican importance. When Mr. Hoover took office in 1929, he felt the need for better contacts with the House leadership, persuaded Representative Newton to resign his seat and join the White House staff...
Would it be asking too much of the new President, asked the old President, to give Mr. Newton a job? Why, of course not. The new President would be glad to take care of the old President's special friend. President Hoover looked happy for the first and only time on that ride up Capitol Hill. Last week President Roosevelt kept his March 4 promise by appointing Mr. New ton to be a Republican member of the moribund Federal Home Loan Bank Board. The job pays $9,000 per year. Though Nebraska's Norris called the nomination...
John Barzillai Rackliffe '34 of Newton, was awarded the History and Literature Prize of $50, given by an anonymous donor to the Junior who shows the greatest promise among men concentrating in the division. Philippe Dur '35, of Toronto, Canada, was awarded the Barrett Wendell Prize given to the Sophomore who, in the opinion of the Committee had made the most notable progress in the year. Dur's prize consisted of a specially bound edition of the works of Montaigne...
Charles Francis Adams...........1,000 Newton D. Baker....... 2,000 Owen D. Young...