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Proud is Harvard of sons who have become famed financiers and economists, stalwart foundation piles of the U. S. timocracy and foreign financial affairs. Among them are: John Pierpont Morgan (1889); Thomas William Lament (1892), onetime Harvard Overseer, Morgan partner; Banker George Fisher Baker Jr. (1899); Frank William Taussig (1879), political economist; Thomas Nelson Perkins (1891), U. S. alternate at the Paris Reparations Conference (1929); Seymour Parker Gilbert (LL. B., 1915), Agent General for Reparation Payments (since 1924); Jeremiah Smith Jr. (1892), League of Nations Commissioner General for Hungary (1924-26) in charge of its financial reconstruction. Last week...
Thousands of Royalists stood massed in the great square before the Gare du Nord, some prosperous, more poor, nearly all bearing bouquets of flowers. Stalwart youths of Les Camelots du Roi, or Royalist League, formed a guard of honor, drawn up in double file, eyes front, facing a lane which extended from the railway platform to a waiting taxicab-a very special cab. With sheepish smiles and shrugs policemen representing the majesty of the French Republic kept at a respectful distance. They would have been mobbed if they had interfered. "Vive la France!" roared the crowd. "La France royale...
...somehow a feeling that without him the team would not really be at its full strength refuses to be downed. And then again in such cases as the second team fullback berth, few would argue that the team would be a great deal weaker with Holy Cross's stalwart leader Stewart Clancy filling...
Even at home Herr & Frau Boess were not allowed to forget the Sklarek fur coat. Communists booed and hooted under the Boess windows until driven away by industrious Schupos, then came back to boo and hoot some more. Most persistent was a stalwart young Red who strode up and down before the house clad with eccentric symbolism in an amorphous, shaggy fur coat dyed flaming yellow...
...trifle under 10 seconds flat. Rumor has him confined to crutches now but he is making the trip to Cambridge and don't be surprised if he hobbies out on to the field Saturday and discards his crutches in a moment of weakness to the dismay of a stalwart Crimson defense. Other famous cripples have made sports history as for example the Yankee team of last year and Erwin Gehrke of Yale-Harvard renown...