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...oldster, to a stern radical-Socialist with a dauntless record of success, fussy little President Gaston Doumergue of France handed last week the mandate of a Prime Minister...
...Embassy in Rio de Janeiro his chief. Ambassador Edwin Vernon Morgan, an oldster with 18 years' service in Brazil, was away from his post having fun on a Paris vacation. Secretary Washington, 29, Rhodes Scholar, was in charge. Only four years in the U. S. foreign service, he had been in Rio less than a twelvemonth. He did his conscientious best to keep the State Department in Washington posted on the ebb and flow of the civil war. It looked to him as if the rebels would be defeated by the Federal forces of President Washington Luis...
...declared President Hoover last week to members of his Home Building & Home Ownership Conference as he officially started them on a survey of the National Housing situation. The President's chief aim: easier credit for home purchasers. ¶To the White House with many another oldster learning to read and write went M. S. Gains, 72, of Apison, Tenn. He presented President Hoover with a basket of sweet potatoes, declared afterwards: "And I whispered to him that come frosty weather, I'd send him a 'possum to go with 'em. And that pleased...
...Central and Southern Italy has been shaken by innumerable minor and six major earthquakes. The 1456 quake wiped out 40,000 people in Naples, that of 1626, 70,000 more. In September 1693, 100,000 died in Sicily. Buildings fell and graveyards filled again in 1783. Many an Italian oldster remembers the horror of Messina in 1908. Obscured by War news was the quake of 1915 when 30,000 Italian lives were destroyed. Italian pacifists cried then: "This is God's justice on a bloodthirsty world...
Startling and incredible is the upcurving graph that indicates the increase in U. S. college enrollments since 1918. Beginning with a ripple of backwash from the War, it rolls, surges ever upward, froths to a peak in 1927. To many an oldster who went to college when colleges were smaller, less heterogeneous, this is a sorrowful thing. A profusion of academic degrees, to them, is a metabolistic agent, transforming incipient, able bricklayers into impotent lawyers. For oldsters came comfort last week...