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...History of Greece, given in English, would be a great help to those low-ante men. Such a course, it is true, would be no more than a whirlwind campaign through well-settled valleys, but that is the kind of a course which Sophomores and Juniors need as a background for their studies in other fields...
...from Mr. Stimson, the Harvard Law School Association, and the Law School Class of 1913. Designed as an informal reading room for students, the Root Room contains current magazines, current government publications of interest to lawyers, and books of biography, history, government, and fiction, and other volumes giving general background...
Credit for tipping President Roosevelt off personally on the case against Boss Pendergast was given to Missouri's Governor Lloyd C. Stark, handsome, 53-year-old Democrat of military background and bearing, famed for the apples ("Stark's Delicious") which his father raised before him. For alert Governor Stark a Presidential trial balloon promptly went up last week in the famed "Washington Merry-Go-Round" (syndicated column by Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen...
Wide Knowledge of Background Necessary...
...pompous to you but when you consider the stuff most of the columnist do include in their work, my approach can be excused. The ties, splits, and expectancies are of minor interest to me, and a close glance at my column will show that they are put in the background by my editorializing...