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...That the lavish spenders who do attain undergraduate prominence are relatively very few, and that the amount a man is able to spend has almost no relation to his chances of becoming a leader in undergraduate life, but that such a result depends almost entirely upon his abilities and his character...
Having with unwonted consideration first told Congress that there was a Depression and that he meant to cure it, a few hours later last week, the President told the country. Result was his twelfth "fireside chat," delivered from the diplomatic room...
...Franklin Roosevelt might have entertained to reward Mr. Dieterich's loyalty was thwarted. Governor Horner and Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly paid separate visits to the White House, each to say that this year he would support not Dieterich but a candidate of his own choice. Result was that Mr. Dieterich regretfully decided not to run. Governor Homer's entry was an amiably conservative downstate Congressman named Scott Lucas. To oppose Mr. Lucas, Mayor Kelly and Cook County's Democratic Committee Chairman Patrick Nash chose Michael Igoe, a seasoned Irish politician whom Franklin Roosevelt...
Another move was an Iranian hint that His Britannic Majesty's naval forces in the Persian Gulf were no longer welcome to make their base in Iranian waters. Result: The British Naval Base was moved across the Gulf to the oil-laden Bahrein Islands, territory of more tractable, independent H. H. Sheik Sir Hamad bin 'Isa al Khalifa, leaving His Britannic Majesty's diplomatic agent for the Persian Gulf uncomfortably high & dry in.' Bushire's British Residency (see map, p. IQ). Meanwhile protection-loving Imperial Airways revised its flying route to India, establishing its regular...
...Just what is going to happen as a result of the present hostilities is hard to say," stated the diplomat, veteran of 36 years, experience in the Orient. "There is no doubt that the war has created a great national feeling in China, and in Japan it is not wholly backed by the mass of the people by any means," he added...