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...distinguished family ("a Machray can do no wrong'") when huge shortages were turned up last year in the trust and endowment funds of his church and university. He pleaded guilty to stealing $500,000 from the university, $60,000 from a onetime law partner, was given a seven-year sentence by a magistrate who had been his friend for 25 years (TIME, Sept...
Nevertheless, we chuckle with joy at the very thought of an old-time Faculty Meeting, which the new president has promised soon. Cromwell sent the English Parliament home for a seven-year vacation, after he had tired of its chattering nonsense. President Lowell forgot about faculty meetings five years ago, when there was a lot of work waiting to be done, such as the House Plan. Now that the military rule is over, we welcome the time-honored convention with all our hearts...
After contrasting such empire-builders as "Mister Harriman." "Mister Vanderbilt," J. P. Morgan. "Mister Mellon" and Bruce Barton with Trailblazer Meriwether Lewis, Poet MacLeish concludes: You have just beheld the Makers making America: They screwed her scrawny and gaunt with their seven-year panics: They bought her back on their mortgages old-whore-cheap: They fattened their bonds at her breasts till the thin blood ran from them: Men have forgotten how full and clear and deep The Yellowstone moved on the gravel and grass grew When the land lay waiting for her westward people...
...beginning which have the raucous air of wisecracks from Variety. When Mary Evans meets her producer (Gregory Ratoff), he chases her out of the room, crying to his three reassuring assistants : "No, No! One yes at a time." Presently he calls her back, gives her a seven-year contract. Constance Bennett is a pound or two heavier than heretofore, less gruff* in her speech...
...sooner had 19,359,642 German ballots re-elected President von Hindenburg for a second seven-year term last week than audacious Adolf Hitler (who had won 13,417,460 votes) began talking of "My victory...