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...Jane") from an egregious haunt for U. S. tourists to a bedraggled ghost city of boarded-up saloons and flapping signs. Some excitement occurred two months ago when 400 unemployed barricaded themselves in the big Agua Caliente (literally "Hot Water") hotel and defied the garrison of 28 soldiers to oust them. Since then Aunty Jane has been tomb-quiet...
...beloved is Donkin that when the hateful new headmaster tries to oust him, the young folks start a B. U. D. C. (Back Up Donkin Club). Things get pretty tense. The headmaster abolishes the school regatta, and Donkin packs up to leave. Only in the nick of time is he reinstated, and the oldest minx marries the shy music instructor, Philip ("Poop"), who calls his baby grand piano "B. G." For the final curtain Donkin stands alone in his study listening to the boys ("Old Crump," "Bimbo," "Flossie," and their pals) singing Auld Lang Syne...
...were it not that Yale University, now plowing bravely into fields already braved by Harvard, is running into difficulties similar to those still plaguing University Hall. A reliable report from New Haven announces a proposal to group all Eli Freshmen on the Old Campus next year. This move would oust about 350 upperclassmen, chiefly Sophomores, from their mellow quarters and replace them with some 500 Yearlings. This is a natural step in the development of the Yale College plan, patterned after the Harvard Houses. And it raises the same question there which has been raised more than once here--namely...
...elusive news. The only tangible development was the decision by the "unity" group in the U. A. W. high command to make one more attempt to oust President Homer Martin and his "Progressives" at a special U. A. W. convention to be called by rank & file petition. But the terrific backstage struggle for union control appeared so significant that the country's No. 1 labor reporter, Louis Stark of the New York Times, went to Detroit for the entire week...
...into Providence to launch the daily Star-Tribune. Last month the Star-Tribune got its first big story when Governor Quinn's State Division of Horse Racing, charging numerous irregularities in the conduct of Narragansett Park's approximately $4,000,000 yearly business, ordered the track to oust Major Stockholder O'Hara as managing director. The Star-Tribune reacted so violently to this news that Publisher O'Hara was arrested for libel on the complaint of Governor Quinn, whom the paper called a "- -* liar." Out on bail, Walter O'Hara went straight back...