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...therefrom argue for stricter Federal regulation of interstate power. As the Commission's hearings started Phase II last week in a schoolroom atmosphere of charts and maps, who should be called to the witness stand but Smith Wildman Brookhart Jr., the Iowa Senator's slender, soft-voiced, studious son, aged 25. When the Senator arrived in Washington in 1926, Son Brookhart had been given a clerical job with the Trade Commission. Graduated from George Washington Uni versity in 1929, he was promoted to the rank of a Commission economist and investigator. Married, father of a year-old daughter...
...tavern still find the gilded youth of Cambridge in more or less complete possession, and the replacement of the stock of stemmed glassware at the Brookline Country Club is still a standard item on every hostess's dance bill. To be sure, the authorities can usually round up enough studious looking fellows to illustrate the divans in the house libraries when visiting notables or the photographers are around, but to date the changes in Harvard undergraduate existence resulting from the house plan have been practically negligible...
Further indication of studious Oxford's sudden interest in winning intercollegiate contests-an aspiration hitherto regarded by many an Oxonian as unworthy and "American"-is found in the fact that famed Old Blues have lately been enlisted to coach the varsity teams; college and hall teams have been encouraged to train diligently, schedule hard matches...
Above the gabble of minor seers there last week arose the well-respected voice of Col. Leonard Porter Ayres, studious vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. Distinguishing the present world-wide depression from the domestic depressions of 1924 and 1927, Col. Ayres, writing in Collier's, predicted a turning point in the near future. "Now arises the emotion of fear," he said. "Things ,,ere [last spring] brighter looking than they were. Now they look darker than they are. This is the last phase of the depression...
Edward of Wales, heir to the throne, is, and would like to remain, a bachelor. Next in succession is the studious, slightly stuttering Duke of York, of whom Edward P. has often privately told his friends: "He would make a far better King than I." Third in succession at the present time is effervescent, curly-headed Princess Elizabeth, "Princess Lilybet," King George's favorite grandchild, now aged 4. Though Britain's two greatest rulers were women, politicians dislike queens. A Man-Child was sorely needed, much-longed-for last week...