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...importance of the Institute will lie largely in the intellectual quintessence which will presumably he distilled by the association of first-rate scholars. Such a view of the function of a university is not uncommon in England. But Oxford and Cambridge, through their undergraduates and through the University Members of Parliament, keep in direct contact with the life of the nation. These vitalizing connections the proposed Institute will lack...
Last year Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida was only mildly vexed when her congressional colleagues twitted her about her uncommon interest in insects. At that time she was identified with three measures for controlling Mediterranean fruit flies, Japanese beetles and mosquitoes in her home State. Last week Representative Owen's attention turned to snakes...
...unboastful Democrat, not by a man from Mars was this analysis and forecast of the November elections made last week. The speaker was none other than the arch-Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Congressman Nicholas Longworth of the First (Cincinnati) Ohio District. A political realist with an uncommon sense of election drifts, he made the above remarks in an interview to newshawks in Washington. His statement made other G. O. P. leaders wriggle and squirm with acute pain. But a few hours later Speaker Longworth atoned for his frankness, proved himself still the orthodox partisan when he broadcast...
...list of cities where, since the success of The New Yorker, local weekly smartchart, have been started, last fortnight was added New Orleans.† Like most of its contemporaries, The New Orleanian candidly follows The New Yorker pattern. Its first issue showed care of preparation, uncommon taste in typographical layout. Most famed contributor: Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford, author of Ol' Man Adam & His Chillun (source of Marc Connelley's Pulitzer prize play, The Green Pastures). Instead of "The Talk of the Town" (New Yorker), the New Orleanian's first pages were headed "Uptown-Downtown-Back of Town...
...modest utterances of the President are not uncommon in the pages of TIME. I am quite proud of a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence which I received from President Hoover on which he wrote, "No American of our generation could worthily add his signature among these men. Herbert Hoover." Herewith is photostat copy of the President's message...