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...Arena show, are ten other kingpins of acquatics. Among the women are: Georgia Coleman. 1932 Olympic holder of the high diving title: Dorothy Peynton Hill. 1932 and 1936 Olympic diving queen: Jane Fauntz Mauske, who placed third in the Olympic high diving in 1932: Lenore Kight, holder of sixteen different world's swimming records, from one mile down to 100 yards, and Josephine McKim...
...Lederer became imbued with the peace idea, when as a youth of sixteen in Czechoslovakia, he saw the horrors of the late World War. He immediately tried to reason the whole problem out, and arrived at the conclusion that the people don't want war, that in times of crises they are easily led, merely tools in the hands of politicians and munitions makers. Today, the nations of the world are spending 81 per cent of their incomes for armament, and according to him, the people deriving benefits are not the nations themselves, but greedy individuals growing sleek...
Advising Governor Landon on agricultural matters is Earl Howard Taylor, a Kansan, who left the University of Nebraska in 1913 to take a newspaper job. Sixteen years an associate editor of The Cattle Gentleman, he is Chi Phi's most distinguished authority on rural life and the farmer...
...possibility, demands in the interests of tragedy. At the beginning of "Winterset," a Christ-like radical is shown being condemned by a judge to die for a murder which he did not do, with his infant son in the room, and the three guilty men near at hand. Sixteen years later, by very little more than chance, these strange associates are ironically reunited: the son, a young man inspired by the conviction of his father's innocence and depraved by the lust for revenge; the judge, driven periodically mad by flitting shadows of remorse; and the three guilty...
...Republican members of the United States Congress and, of more importance, the stimulation of the details of party organization. No man or woman who has assumed a position of leadership in the campaign just ended can fail to realize the deep obligation due to the more than sixteen million Americans who voted their convictions. I have expressed to Mr. Hamilton my deep appreciation ... to all of those who joined in the common cause. They will not be abandoned...