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...such innocuous topics as Senator Key Pittman's silver resolution. "I've rewritten the draft of it 15 times," he confessed. "It is getting so I don't recognize it any more. We may get somewhere-I hope we do-but I'm no bleating optimist any more!" "We Cannot Participate!" With the chief Continental delegates mostly back on the Continent (where Germany's blunt Dr. Hjalmar Schacht said last week that the motto of future conferences ought to be "No More Chatter!") a real issue developed in London between the Mother Country...
...purpose." President Roosevelt reported conditions "a little better than they were two months ago," with industry picking up. freight traffic increasing, farm prices improving. But, he warned, "I am not going to indulge in issuing proclamations of overenthusiastic assurance. We cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity." A sensible optimist, he added: "We may make mistakes of procedure as we carry out the policy. I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average. . . . Theodore Roosevelt once said to me: 'If I can be right...
...been announced that the Harvard Advocate may publish the Dramatic Club's prize-winning play. "The Constant Optimist" by R. J. Bry '35, in their June issue.LOIS MORAN...
...Constant Optimist," by R. J. Bry '35, is the winning play in the Student Prize Play Competition, the play-reading committee of the Harvard Dramatic Club announced last night. A silver plaque with appropriate inscription will be awarded...
...trying to study? Sure, I know what you want--human interest, that's it. Yeah, every once in a while one of you birds comes crawling around here looking for D-G stories. I know, I tried out for a competition myself. Well, you're an optimist if you think there's anything around here for your sheet. But now, please, can't you see that...