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...Island he met with John Francis Curry, Tammany chieftain, and Boss John H. McCooey of Brooklyn. Two days later affable Governor Joseph Buell Ely of Massachusetts dropped in to see Mr. Smith at the Empire State Building. Governor Ely will make the Smith nominating speech. Asked whether he would refer to Mr. Smith as the Happy Warrior, Governor Ely snapped: "We've graduated from that high school stuff, I hope." Mr. Smith appeared to tell newsmen that he had received by mail "about nine million clippings" of last fortnight's Scripps-Howard editorial...
...various departments have been requested to submit their outstanding theses or essays, such as the Bowdoin Prize Essays, to Dean Hanford who will refer them to a committee headed by C. C. Brinton 19, assistant professor of History, for selection. The winning thesis may be the second choice to the one already published in English Literature, or it may be the best one of some other department...
Back snapped Speaker Garner: "It would be just as logical to refer to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation act as a 'pork barrel' for the banks, insurance companies, railroads and financial institutions of the country. . . . The Democrats did not expect to receive real co-operation from the President in any manner benefiting the masses...
...started fairly quietly with a debate on the administration of justice in Prussia and the election of Hitlerite Hans Kerrl (who likes to refer to Adolf Hitler as "Germany's Jesus Christ") as President of the Diet. Suddenly up sprang Communist Wilhelm Pieck. Shaking his fist at the Fascist benches he screamed: "In your ranks there sit a huge number of murderers...
...many years students of rival academies have referred to the Prix de Rome painters as "Little Savages" (TIME, May 19, 1930, May 18, 1931). By this they refer to Yale's Leffingwell Professor of Painting & Design, bristle-lipped Eugene Francis Savage, a muralist best known as the decorator of that amazing fane, the Elks National Memorial in Chicago. Professor Savage is an active member of the Fine Arts committee of the American Academy in Rome. Almost all recent winners of the Prix de Rome have painted in the manner of Eugene Francis Savage. Finding little in their own time...