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...anger at this stubborn resistance from within his own party Governor Lehman made a threat. During the 1932 campaign. Franklin Roosevelt gave his good friend Herbert Lehman his blessing, saying in his hearty way that he was glad that Lehman would be at Albany so that he could call up from the White House and say "Hello, Herbert, this is Frank." Last week Governor Lehman let it be known that, unless Bosses Flynn and Farley saw the error of their ways, he would call up the White House and say in effect, "Hello, Frank, this is Herbert. Will you please...
...Everything (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Set unconvincingly at the turn of the century, this picture presents Hannah Bell (May Robson), a stubborn, avaricious, domineering old widow who is "the richest woman in the world." What Hannah Bell cannot buy are love and happiness. She saves money by living in cheap lodgings, making her son's clothes, putting him in a charity hospital. She bullies her bankers. When she grudgingly gives money for a free clinic it is only for spite, to take business away from private practitioners. Throughout the years it is her aim to ruin a banker (Lewis Stone...
...Georgia, CWA was put in charge of Miss Gay Shepperson, fortyish, professional social worker. This resulted from a thoroughgoing quarrel between blatant dictatorish Governor Talmadge and President Roosevelt's quiet stubborn CWAdministrator Hopkins. In the course of the quarrel, these words flew...
...stubborn industrialists. Just before midnight, when the President is leaving for Hyde Park, General Johnson dashes for the White House. "Three major codes signed!" he cries. "That's a day's work!' Estimated jobs created: lumber, 115,000; steel, 50,000; oil, 240,800. Aug. 27-The automobile business becomes the fifth major industry to be codified. "My one regret," says General Johnson, "is that Henry Ford did not sign." Aug. 31-Dudley Gates of Chicago, Johnson's right hand man for industry, resigns. Mr. Gates believed in vertical unions, rather than the oldstyle horizontal unions...
...assimilation of graduates and tutors into them, are no more important than the presence of beer. There may be tutors so dedicated to the success of the house plain that they will sacrifice their new privilege, but the record of the tutors' tables, of their healthy life and stubborn, imposed death, indicates that such tutors are in the minority. The graduate students, whose interest is less direct, cannot be expected to eschew beer at meals in the tutorial cause; the bulk of undergraduates over twenty-one will tend to follow their example. In this manner beer will divide the houses...