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...present, only dapper little Roy Howard (Scripps-Howard) and Harry Preston Wolfe of the Columbus (Ohio) Evening Dispatch failed to lift an arm. Scripps-Howard chainpapers had vigorously cudgeled the issue when it was before Congress in March. Final agreement of the publishers, however, was that they would support a Sales Tax if the President would personally sponsor...
...electric chair and it is based on the unscientific theory that a man's life unreels itself, complete with dialog, in the two seconds between the first twitch of the electricity and unconsciousness. Recapitulating, Robinson sees himself as a happy steelworker on a girder with his friend (Preston Foster). Soon, still happy, he is refusing to get involved with a pretty, scheming dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne). She fills him full of liquor and marries him anyway and he is marked for the electric chair. In defending her against his best friend's cynicisms, her husband boots the friend...
Southeastern Brazil will be the subject of a talk by Preston James '20, assistant professor of Geography at the University of Michigan at 7.30 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Junior Common Room of Eliot House. On Wednesday evening Gottfried Haberler, professor of Political Economy at the University of Vienna and visiting lecturer at Harvard, is to deliver a speech before the Politico-Economic Society at 7.15 o'clock, also in the Junior Common Room...
Child of Manhattan. There is a curious phonetic trait, found in certain parts of Brooklyn, which causes people to substitute the sound er for the sound oi. It is with one of these etymological freaks, a very pretty one called Madeleine McGonegal (Dorothy Hall), that Child of Manhattan by Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) is concerned. Miss McGonegal comes from a disadvantaged home in a neighborhood which she calls "Greenpernt." She is a dance hall hostess in a "jernt" named Loveland. At Loveland she meets a rich, self-contained young man who has come to see to what uses his property...
...summary: LEVERETT YALE 1933 Lovejoy, l.f. r.f., Furcolome Fields, c. c., Crowell, Hyatt Leavan, r.f. l.f., Van Wynckle, Weschler Shapiro, Johnson, Preston, l.g. r.g., Stevens, Prettis Henderson, McNott, r.g. l.g., Irvin...