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...Delegation tall, breezy Texas ranching tycoon Ralph W. Morrison. Not much concerned with Conference backstairs intrigue (see p. 15), Mr. Morrison sat through more Conference sessions than any other U. S. Delegate, puffed a fat cigar in pleasant ignorance that all the little signs reading "Prière de ne pas fiimcr" meant "Please do not smoke...
...Califo-ornia's delegation-elected by six hundred thou-usand voters-in an uncontested pri-mary-present to you-for President of the Uni-ited States-America's gree-eatest administrator in human welfare-Her-r-rber-r-rt Hoo-oover...
...Vare rejoiced greatly in defeat. The Vare-picked candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia, City Treasurer Harry A. Mackey, defeated J. Hampton Moore, a onetime Philadelphia Mayor, by 73,969 votes (unofficial count). This was over 100,000 votes less than Senator-elect Vare piled up in the Philadelphia pri-mary last Autumn against George Wharton Pepper and Gifford Pinchot. Elated, Candidate Moore and friends talked about another assault on the Vare machine at the November election, with an independent ticket. Philadelphians could thus look forward to two months more of Vare-style campaigning, which consists in spending dollars...
...strong boy--highly salutary; but I venture to say that hardly any of the conditions surrounding our Freshmen are incapable of improvement, and some of them need very prompt and very thorough-going improvement. It is also worth pointing out that it is the graduates of the pri- vate schools who find these conditions most upsetting, and it for them that the transition from school to college is most critical