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...Democracy. She participates in many of Mrs. Roosevelt's pet projects, is a co-vice president of her Val-Kill Furniture shop. When Caroline O'Day ran for Congress in 1934, Mrs. Roosevelt broke precedent to campaign for her. She was re-elected last autumn. No rabid feminist, she smooths ruffled Congressmen by such disarming state ments as: "But I don't know a thing about economics!" This is her new post as chairwomen of the Committee on Election of the President she may suddenly get something to do before long was suggested last week by Columbia...
...admitted to the bar at 20. At 24 he was president of the San Antonio Bar Association. His War record did him no harm with future voters. As a lieutenant in the Argonne he was severely wounded, twice decorated. He returned from the War a rabid antimilitarist. When he went into politics he soon became known as a forceful speaker of the old knock-'em-down-&- drag-'em-out school. Since those days he has had a change of heart, believes now in plain speaking, but "the politician of today cannot afford to be a bore...
Professor Williams' conscientious method of presenting every side of all controversial questions in his Money and Banking courses is well known and appreciated. His practical point of view and balanced attitude on questions over which it is easy to become rabid, will help him to perform to perfection his new functions as Dean of the School of Public Administration. The President and Fellows of Harvard are to be congratulated on their outstanding choice...
Even in 1920, when there sprang up in Denmark a campaign to overthrow the monarchy, set up a Republic, King Christian continued to ride through excited crowds in Copenhagen's streets. The movement came to nothing because the most rabid Republicans decided that popular King Christian would be the only possible President, concluded they might as well retain him as King. On May 14, two days after George VI's Coronation in London, comes the Silver Jubilee of Christian X. Representing Denmark at Westminster Abbey will be Crown Prince Frederik, who will then fly back by specially chartered...
...gallery-goers last week to realize that six of the nine Realists were once members of a group that called itself The Eight,* and was formed about 1908 to show these paintings which academicians of the time were regarding with all the horror that their descendants now save for rabid surrealists. Though they were ardently in favor of their associates' ambition to paint the New York life that surrounded them, Artists Arthur B. Davies and Maurice Prendergast never painted that sort of picture. They were thus omitted from last week's show and their places taken by three...