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...their own position, did nothing either, but took pains to be exceedingly polite. Realizing that France and Germany must come to direct terms sooner or later, the French and German delegations stayed at the same hotel, the Ritz. Junior attachés breakfasted together publicly. Swart Premier Laval and stoop-shouldered Brer Briand were always willing to see reporters. On the crucial morning of the conference Brer Briand posed amiably for reporters even though he had just gashed his cheek open while shaving. Nerves of the U. S. delegates were frazzled. For two days wires sputtered with details...
...room. On the way one of the number knocked at a door. "Get the hell out, I'm studying," was the shocking answer. A think grimace was pasted on the lips of the knocker. They would have revenge. Two Victrolas were commandeered and set to playing on the door stoop--"Something To Remember Me By." Then a few fire crackers were shot off to give the thing a tinge of reality. The scoundrels slunk off to their rooms to study...
...against proration in the field. Often Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair has been accused of leading the price-cutting. Last week his house-organ, the Sinclair Reflector, asked "Who Killed Cock Robin?" and answered that the big oil companies did it by bootlegging oil at cheap prices. "Sinclair did not stoop to subterfuge or practice evasion," said the Reflector...
...Harvard representatives who will attend the meeting are E. S. Amazeen '31, J. J. De Stoop 1G, J. W. Fleming 1G, and W. I. Tucker '33. They will be accompanied by Lane and T. L. Harris, the University Adviser in Religion...
...Author. Stephen Vincent Benet has no illusions about his own address on Mt. Parnassus. He calls himself a minor poet, says of himself: "I am but a shell,'' to be held against the ear to arouse a "dim, far whisper." Young (32), nearsighted, tall, stoop-shouldered, Poet Benet tried hard to get into the Army during...