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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside Congress: He lives with his son at the non-fashionable Continental Hotel when in Washington: when in Lafayette in a colonial- type tree-shaded mansion. He owns no automobile. His one diversion: watching baseball games. He is outside Washington's smart society. Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: an oratorical genius, an eccentric, no great legislator. An oldtime politician whose personal magnetism has overridden his legislative deficiencies, brought him, colorful, to a drab modern Congress. He bolted, bated Democratic supporters of Roman Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, stumped for President Hoover, but did not vote...
...them down the throats of the unsuspecting students. Excessive attachment for the English system of education and a feeling that it is definitely superior to that in force at Harvard, for example, is leading some of the masters to believe that they can graft this fruit on to a tree of purely native growth. Again there is the danger that the new relations between faculty and student body may give rise to a feeling of responsibility on the part of the former which may lead to an offensive form of paternalism, so foreign to the nature and development of Harvard...
Meanwhile in the Belgica Capt. Ernest de Muyter (fourtimes winner) with Leon Coeckelbaerg fought lightning, snow and loss of altitude. All ballast gone, Coeckelbaerg slid down the drag rope into a tree to lighten the load, but the bag settled at Adams, Mass., a 435 mi. mark. For the co-pilot's heroism, disqualification was threatened...
Killed. Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr., graduate of Princeton last June, son of the board chairman of Remington Arms Co., great-grandson of its founder Marcellus Hartley, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; when a motor which he was driving struck a tree on the Bayonne- Bordeaux road in France where Dodge had been sent by his mother for diversion from aviation, which she considered a dangerous hobby...
Died. Marion Terry, 73, famed old- time British actress, player of chief roles in more than 125 great plays, heroine for Henry Irving. Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Edward A. Sothern, sister of the even more illustrious Dame Ellen Terry and of Kate, Florence and Fred Terry, all of the British stage; after an illness of several months, in London...