Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week President Roosevelt appointed John James Elaine, onetime Republican Senator from Wisconsin, to the board of Reconstruction Finance Corp. Other appointments: Massachusetts' John H. Fahey, onetime president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, to the Home Loan Bank Board; New Hampshire's Raymond B. Stevens to the Federal Trade Commission; Basil Manly, onetime investigator for the Senate, to the Federal Power Commission...
...theory for behavior. This odd combination of circumstances has a peculiar effect. It gives the picture a disarming sincerity; because Fay Wray in a serious emotional role develops a skillful and moving performance, the trite machinations of the plot acquire an incongruous validity. The story: a young architect (Gene Raymond) and his wife are pressed for funds. She goes into a law office, swiftly becomes a celebrated attorney. Her husband, slighted by her friends, humiliated by her success, takes to drink, dancing girls, the profession of crooning. When his mistress strangles herself by accident, he is accused of murder...
...because of a new "unit-cost" plan which will raise tuition fees to about $1,340.* Hamilton Holt seemed doggedly intent on having his own way even if it meant decimating his faculty and losing leading students. With him he had a complaisant board of trustees, save for Mrs. Raymond Robins, Florida bookshop proprietor and wife of Herbert Hoover's reformer friend who disappeared with amnesia for some weeks last year (TIME, Sept. 19 et Seq.) She hastened to Winter Park to see that her nephew, Professor Theodore Dreier, was not booted out with the others...
...whose hair is red and long, belongs to that school of comedians originated by the late, droll Raymond Hitchcock. He takes personal charge of the proceedings, tells the audience what is going on backstage and when a joke is too feeble to put itself across. Mr. Fay has an assistant who starts shouting, "Eh? Eh?" This is not very funny...
...Rhodes but concentrates on Swarthmore. He met, and silenced. George Bernard Shaw at a British garden party by telling him about his Honors Courses. President Aydelotte got Swarthmore a Rhodes Scholar football coach and numerous professors. Other colleges have taken some of his best men-Dean Valentine, President Raymond Walters of the University of Cincinnati, President Frank Parker Day of Union College, Dean Frances Burlingame of Elmira College. President Aydelotte introduced scholarships of a Rhodes type at Swarthmore, doubled the number for next year hoping to get more and abler students. Among Swarthmore alumni are onetime Governors Sweet of Colorado...