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Ebullient Dubliners said this makes their country a republic and it certainly kills "the person of the King" in the Free State, but that person has been a legal fiction. Teacherish President Eamon de Valera said dryly that his Free State has not withdrawn from the "British Commonwealth of Nations." The Dail vote he explained "leaves the King only a vague title in the international affairs of the Irish Free State. He has no longer any internal powers...
...Eugene Hillhouse Pool, teacherish president of the Academy, opened the lecture course, then ducked out on 750 out-of-towners who signed up ($3 each) for the course. Manhattan manners were forgiven, however, when Dr. Pool, long-time professor of clinical surgery at Columbia University, reappeared at San Francisco to be elected 1936 president of the American College of Surgeons...
...their "superiors," principals and superintendents. But currently pedagogs are deeply troubled. Last year's N. E. A. convention dropped the stock squabble to unite on one proposition: the Federal Government should subsidize needy schools. Last week that issue was still near the top of the 12,000 teacherish minds at Denver. Keynoted Professor Jesse Homer Newlon of Teachers College, Columbia...
Down beside President Roosevelt's desk last week sat Arthur Ernest Morgan, teacherish head of Tennessee Valley Authority, to arrange an exchange of personal favors. Dr. Morgan just wanted to be sure that the President would not stand for the constrictive changes which the House Military Affairs Committee made in his TV Amendments. Mr. Roosevelt just wanted to ask whether Dr. Morgan would take care of 18-year-old Son John Roosevelt for the summer, give him an unpaid job doing TVA "field surveys." They had no disagreement about obliging each other...
...Arthur E. Morgan, teacherish chairman of TVA, called by the committee, explained: "We bought the land so we could come into their plans and work out with them a unified program. It was done merely so we could cooperate with them rather than work in conflict with them...