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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regret to report the loss of enrolled bill HR 6084 authorizing a bond issue for Ketchikan, Alaska, which was delivered to my office on May 3 by a messenger from the White House. The bill was receipted for by a messenger at my door. . . . I have caused everyone to search all papers in and on their desks. . . . I am chagrined to have to report the loss of this bill in spite of the care with which enrolled bills are handled...
...CRIMSON is just as bored as everyone else with the apparent triteness of discussions involving teaching and scholarship. Yet a search for different words, under which to disguise this controversy, is just as difficult as locating Whistler's father. In considering this problem as it arises in the Freshman year, one is forced to use these words not once but a dozen times...
...bank holidays by closing the banks in his State. Last week, having lost both the Democratic renomination and a large inherited fortune, ex-Governor Comstock went into bankruptcy. Among liabilities of over $1,000,000 were $150,000 in assessments on stocks of reopened banks. Assets: $6.376.66. In search of "some good Milwaukee beer." Wisconsin's Representative Raymond J. Cannon and a U. S. marshal named McKenna bargained with a Washington taxi driver to take them to suburban Maryland Club Gardens and back for $2.50. Thirsty Representative Cannon & friend strode into the club at 10 p. m., found their...
Playwright Delafield comes close to Chekovian penetration in the scene in which the wife, verging on collapse, daubs her face with cold cream while pouring out her anguish to a husband whose attention is distracted by a bumbling search for toothpaste. Miss Delafield also occasionally gets off such lines as: "Every Englishman is an average Englishman." The husband, ringing for the harried servant in spite of the wife's wishes, observes with exquisite Edwardian pomposity: "What's the use of keeping a dog if you do your own barking...
...will noise it about. While the gleaming Taj Mahals still stand in not-so-mute testimony of the glory that was Ogden Goelet's, Cornelius Vanderbilt's, and Oliver Belmont's, most of the notables of Newport have packed up the family jewels and scandals and gone off in search of simpler dwelling-places on the coasts, of Maine. Not only did conscience-stricken Ogden Mills sell his Newport place last year in preparation for running for the Presidency of this democratized country in 1936, but even the John Jacob Astors slink into the main dining-room of the Providence...