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...alone with President Hoover. On Thursday Premier Laval arrived from France for White House "discussions." Through an "oversight," Senator Borah's invitation to the White House dinner that night did not arrive until 6:30 p. m. On Friday afternoon the first of the Hoover-Laval discussions got underway. Simultaneously, a dozen agreeably surprised French newspaper correspondents and some 30 U. S. newshawks were ushered into the big meeting room of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate Office Building, their request for an interview with Senator Borah having been granted. For the first time, last week the grizzled...
While preliminary meetings of the building and metal trades departments got underway, came more bad news. The U. S. Department of Labor at Washington announced a 12.4% increase in industrial unemployment for August as compared with August last year and two more big companies-Republic Steel and M. A. Hanna Co. (coal) of Cleveland-reduced wages...
Fall crew will get underway today with a short meeting for University and Freshman candidates in the New Lecture Hall at 2 o'clock. C. J. Whiteside, head crew coach, H. H. Haines, Freshman coach; and Captain T. E. Armstrong '32 will talk. At 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon aspirants from the Class of 1935 will report to Weld Boat House for workouts in the Leviathan and in shells...
...balloting got underway last week at the Atlantic Hook & Ladder firehouse there were three main schools of thought. Spokesman for the Travis faction said, somewhat erroneously: "Now the name of these diggings was Travisville in the beginning. That's his story anyway. Travis was an old ship captain and from what I hear he was some boy. Let's stick to the old name of Travisville, but let's cut off the ville. That sounds too much like a hick place. . . . Imagine going into some of them big Manhattan department stores to buy and giving your home...
Civic Repertory Theatre. Eva Le-Gallienne's enterprise got underway for its fifth season with one new presentation, The Green Cockatoo by Arthur Schnitzler. Mr. Schnitzler's playlet advances the notion that slumming was a popular diversion in France during the reign of Louis XVI. Undaunted by the fact that the Bastille has just fallen, a band of gallants and their lady friends come to roister in the tavern of one Prospère. The host has planted actors in the crowd to relate bloodcurdling events, thrill the guests, give them their money's worth. Climax...