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While members of Chicago's Union League Club strove last week to find a successor to Calvin Coolidge (see below), members of New York's Union League Club hustled the nude figure of Paul Robeson to the club librarian's office...
...solicited for alma mater in a campaign patterned after the Red Cross roll-call. Over the radio went the voices of longtime (1892-1920) President Jacob Gould Schurman, President Livingston Farrand and Myron Charles Taylor, Class of 1894, chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee. Campaigners strove to overpass Yale's record for alumni subscribers (9,493) made in 1928. Cornell results: total subscribers for year ending June 30: 10,134. Total gifts for year...
...would be vacant by Aug. 1. Many believed it would still require a public demand from President Hoover to get Mr. Huston out. Speculators selected Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio as his probable successor. To avoid a public explosion on the eve of an important campaign. Republican leaders strove to get the whole unpleasant to-do out of the headlines...
...depressed state of trade, viewing it as a psychological phenomenon (see p. 39). Next he surveyed the nation's moral fibre: ". . . its founders . . . sought to live in the things of the spirit. They put first things first, They set small store on the things that are temporal but strove mightily for the things that are eternal. If this nation is to endure, we shall have to continue to walk by their light...
...sudden squall in the turbulent Polish Sejm (Parliament) flung out Kasimir Bartel as Prime Minister of Poland last week. Professor Juljan Szymanski, amiable oculist-editor, strove valiantly to form another Cabinet, at the request of President Ignacy Moscicki. The proceedings infuriated Poland's Dictator, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, whose official position is merely that of Minister...