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...believe in the inevitability of class struggle, deplore the program and tactics of the Communists, and cannot second the demands of the National Student League, it is impossible for me to continue as an officer of the Club, and I have resigned the secretaryship. John De Witt Norton...
...President, elected to succeed Dr. Gary next year, is Dr. Dean De Witt Lewis, professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University, surgeon-in-chief to Johns Hopkins Hospital. When Dr. Lewis, 57, was a Kewanee, Ill boy his great ambition was to be a professional ball player. He became a proficient pitcher. While he studied medicine at Rush Medical College he spent almost every free afternoon at ball games. The great pleasure of his interneship was the free passes which he received for tending the minor injuries of Chicago players...
...Shaw owns a fine collection of the earlier Fakes, which he invited the new Fakirs to study. Last week he gave his prize (a check instead of pennies) to Beata Beach, daughter of Sculptor Chester Beach, for a parody of De Witt M. Lockman's Academy portrait, His Ancestor's Uniform. The original showed a baldish gentleman in pince nez, leaning against a colonial mantelpiece in a Revolutionary uniform. Fakir Beach showed the same man, completely nude, against the same mantel, under a portrait...
Dissipated Broker Harley Longstreet, to celebrate his engagement to Cherry Browne, gives a party at a New York Hotel. Longstreet's business-partner John De Witt, his wife and daughter, six other acquaintances attend. In spite of gin, the party is far from merry since nearly all the guests have particular reasons for hating their host. He invites them to continue the celebration at his West Englewood home. Because of a sudden shower they all board a crosstown trolley-car. Before they have gone two blocks Longstreet falls dead. In his coat pocket is found a ball of cork...
Significance. Almost every industry in the land has an association and almost every association is, so far as a layman can see, a legal replica of the Sugar Institute. If Lawyers Fly & Rice, who are directed by Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell and U. S. District Attorney George Z. Medalie, win their case, a victorious Government is likely to proceed, hammer & tongs, against dozens of associations. Thus the case may disturb a larger proportion of industry and commerce. It is in no way similar to many of the anti-trust suits pending which in-clude criminal actions against racketeers...