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...Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime editor of the defunct New York World, last week marched into President Roosevelt's office to keep an appointment for luncheon at the Presidential desk. The President, at work on a large official document, did not seem quite his usual cheerful self. Spotting the paper before the President as a Federal income tax blank, Mr. Swope calculated that under the revenue bill which the President had Congress pass last summer, the tax on Franklin D. Roosevelt's $75,000 salary could hardly figure out less than...
Henry Hemmendinger '35, 1G., and Miss Henrietta Swope are the other members of the University who will sail on Wednesday, April 8 for Russia, where they will join Dr. B.P. Gerasimovic, Soviet scientist, in the journey to the field station set up by the Poulkova Observatory...
...Laffoon candidate led the Democratic primary with a plurality, lost the run-off to New Dealer Chandler. Aside from fervent hosannas for President Roosevelt, Candidate Chandler's campaign platform-economy, no State sales tax-differed not at all from that of his Republican opponent, austere Judge King Swope. But loud, toothy, red-headed "Happy" Chandler, onetime newsboy, jazz bandleader and football coach, got himself a sound truck with a live rooster for a radiator emblem, put on a Huey Longish campaign such as Kentuckians had not enjoyed for years. Result: a 95,000 majority for Chandler...
Swooping down on the annual charity performance of the Society of Illustrators, Manhattan police found five naked girls prancing on the stage, hung coats over them, bundled them off to jail for indecency. The male audience, including Herbert Bayard Swope, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Rube Goldberg, Otto Soglow and Arthur William Brown, at first thought the police were actors, laughed uproariously when they announced the show was closed. Then, indignant, many an illustrator traipsed off to court, asked why he should not see nude girls in a show when he painted the same nude girls daily in studios...
...that it is not an easy job to do. But that is an excellent reason for putting a man there who understands and can lead Business, rather than a political expert. There were plenty of such men available on the liberal side of the Democratic Party. Gerard Swope is an outstanding example...