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...since 1928, a real and resounding issue. Whether it is lively enough to capitalize it remains to be seen but at least the party which last year looked as though it were hunting for the legendary valley where elephants trudge to die was once more very much a going concern. Its headquarters last week were not the Program Committee's offices in Chicago but the busy suite in Washington's National Press Club Building, where the staff of Practical Politician Joe Martin's Republican Congressional Committee was figuring out ways and means to round up votes...
When a President whose good humor is normally as unflagging as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's exhibits the least touch of snappishness, it is major news. Last week, reporters lost no time in guessing that Franklin Roosevelt had finally stopped trying to conceal his serious concern about Depression. Right or wrong, the reporters' guess was reasonable. The Gainesville speech had touched off a selling wave that sent the stock market to new lows. Other business indices showed few signs of improvement...
...group recently chosen for the Rhodes Scholarships has aroused undergraduate interest in the type of men now being awarded this coveted honor, and has marked an unfortunate trend away from the all-round type of recipient. Much concern over this trend has been based on sentiment and on opposition to a change of any kind, but criticism of the subordination of leadership, athletic ability, and personality to scholastic attainment is well founded...
...wooden dugout near Emily, Wis., where they kept their aged victim manacled for 13 chill autumn days, then to Spooner. By this time, the jurors gathered from the defendant's story, the affair had taken on the atmosphere of a camping trip in which his principal concern had been the comfort and convenience of the captive. Trouble between Seadlund and his less considerate accomplice apparently developed on this score. When Seadlund went to get gasoline for their car from a cache in the woods he turned around to see Gray pointing a gun at him. From this point...
...WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN...