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...Since Professor Moley and Companion Swope were not officially members of the U. S. Conference delegation, Secretary of State Hull declined to pay their bills from the delegation's slim purse but referred them to the State Department. At the White House door Brain Truster Moley could recall offhand only one $480 telephone conversation with Washington, and, as for a plane, why, he had not expected it to be so expensive. "Any items on the account not properly chargeable to the Government," declared he, "I will pay myself." ¶ Bunching together his Cabinet and key men in all fields...
Adding to its laurels, the Harvard File Club decisively defeated the Boston College sharpshooters, 546-523 at the range of the Walnut Hill Rifle Club in Woburn yesterday afternoon. The course consisted of ten shots prone, ten shots offhand and five shots sitting for a possible 125 points. The day's scores were: For Harvard: Captain J. A. Booth '33, 117; F. H. Poor '34, 109; David Weld '34, 108; Fisher Howe, III '35, 106; Eugene DuBois '33, 106. For Boston: Jansen, 108; Jones, 105; C. Hagen, 105; Mc-Laughlin, 103; Shine, 102. Early in the season B. C. defeated...
Running Record. Offhand Norman Thomas does not recall how many offices he has run for. His running record...
...some U. S. newspapers lapsed into giving the offhand impression that Senator Borah favors cancellation with no strings attached, the French Press did not. ANOTHER THREAT TO FRANCE bristled the Paris Liberté. "The man who is more important than the President in directing American foreign policy in the name of the Senate now asserts brutally that debts and disarmament are linked! He asserts that military and financial problems should be settled by a new conference under Washington's orders. Is France eager to put her head under the knife of the guillotine...
...might be supposed that such antics would only be accomplished, without loss of face, by a low grade buffoon with small respect for his calling. Such is not the case. They are performed here by Will Rogers and become a typical Rogers product, amiable, offhand, bourgeois, amusing...