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Nominations for next year's Winthrop House Committee as announced yesterday by C. L. Fleming, Jr. '33, chairman, include Thomas Downes, L. W. Dunton, J. M. Lockwood, R. B. Martin, J. T. Nichols, T. I. Parkinson, A. W. Polk, R. K. Pratt, B. C. Schwyser, G. A. Thayer, from the Class of 1934, and from 1935: H. A. Gregg, Herman Gundlach, J. G. Simonds, and S. P. Williams...
...acre farm in Polk County, Iowa, Secretary Wallace has given much time and thought to developing prize seed corn. As a boy he was impressed by the fact that judges always seemed to pick the best looking ear rather than the one that promised the biggest yield. By crossbreeding he perfected a seed corn which now sells far & wide throughout Iowa. Wrote he: "Show corn ideals deal too much with beauty and too little with utility. Whether corn has smooth or rough kernels means very little more than the presence or absence of a dimple on a pretty girl...
...extricate himself from such a simple episode. Banker Mitchell had need of no ordinary lawyer. He had already advised with such famed firms as Cravath, Degers-dorff, Swaine & Wood and Davis. Polk. Wardell, Gardiner & Reed. But even the most high-powered Manhattan legal talent agreed that there was only one thing to do: get slick little Crook-Defender Max D. Steuer, "greatest trial lawyer of our time." A brilliant, inconspicuous, hawk-faced Austrian Jew, Max Steuer has defended George Graham Rice, tireless stock swindler; Maurice Connolly, Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff...
...this bill are quite wrong in thinking that it will mean a drastic change. For the simple, unavoidable fact is that the President can start a war whenever he so desires. He has no need of declaring an arms embargo. History has borne this out amply. In 1846 President Polk found it easy enough; troops were sent into the disputed area, American blood was promptly and profusely shed, the flag was fired upon, and the national honor placed in joopardy. War was a foregone conclusion. Showing a little more finesse, President McKinley affected the same result. Afraid that the Democrats...
...Godfrey '34 (W) defeated G. A. Collier '33 (Lev), 3-2; J. W. Carman '34 (W) won by default; J. M. Ossorio '33 (Lev) defeated P. M. DeWolfe '33 (W), 3-1; W. E. A. Range '33 (W) defeated R. I. Cummin '35 (Lev), 3-0; A. W. Polk '35 (W) defeated Nixon deTarnowsky...