Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lunch; how the presence of a secret service man to guard his family in his absence had caused the kidnapping rumor. But James was present not only on family affairs. Before rushing out to buy a suit of oilskins for his father he made a mental note that the President was eating cereal, toast and orange juice, information that he made use of later that day in writing a syndicated press dispatch...
...Latin Oration, which to those few who can understand it adds a light note to the exercises, is delivered traditionally at the opening of every Commencement. Besides Smith, the orator today addressed "praeses et socii," (President and Fellows); "decani" (deans); "professores, praeceptores, tutoresque" (professors, instructors, and tutors); "gubernator praeclare" (Governor Ely); alumni; "patres matresque"; puellae formosissimae" (most comely maidens); "legati Angliae Galliaeque" (the English and French ambassadors); and finally "praeses noster" (President Lowell again...
...scarcely a surprise that this year's Commencement week should find its dominant note in the field of politics and economics. One would be led to suppose, however, that this week's welter of oratory might contain something constructive to grace the thinking which went into its composition. Any close examination of the two outstanding speeches, the Phi Beta Kappa Oration and the Class Oration, shows that such was not the case...
Last week swart Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee wound up his efforts to pin scandal on J. P. Morgan & Co. by trying to prove that its partners had been evading income taxes (see p. 13). Not content to let the inquiry end upon this note, the House of Morgan countered by making two statements. First was a memorandum submitted by John P. Morgan answering Mr. Pccora's criticisms...
...Governor Lehman with four honorary degrees, was kudos champion of 1933. President Roosevelt, Secretary of the Interior Ickes, Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, Roscoe Pound, Sir Josiah Stamp and Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis of Aluminum Co. of America took their second degrees of the year last week. Republicans of note to get kudos were Ogden Livingston Mills and Arthur Atwood Ballantine who is still Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...