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...pious and abstemious citizen. But like New York's James John Walker he has friends always anxious to do him favors. Premier Bennett waits for no summons. Last week, anxious to throttle a "whispering campaign," he hurried before the Canadian Parliament's Committee on National Railways to explain about the rent he is paying for his suite in the Cháteau Laurier...
Meanwhile in his Paris cell Russian Dr. Paul Gorgulov, who killed President Paul Doumer three weeks ago, tried to explain away the crime that is expected to send him to the guillotine...
...explain this in part Counsel Gray last week called upon the investment trust's president, conservative Walter E. Sachs. But Banker Sachs was not president when the company was mushrooming. President then was dynamic, imperious Waddill Catchings, a rampant bull who was also then the dominant partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. It is said that much of the time Banker Catchings' partners never knew what he was doing. Deals would be completely negotiated before he would ask their perfunctory approval...
...vocabulary . . . the effect of college . . . appears to be almost negligible and in some cases positively injurious. ... To a senior with average score the word benighted means weary, recreant means diverting and spurious means foamy. Possibly the fact that he takes the word assiduous to mean foolish may help explain his case...
...creating study and research groups, publishing a magazine, organizing field trips to scenes of industrial conflict, having not only liberal but also radical and conservative speakers, etc., is Communistic, then we think there are a lot of Communists in Harvard. At least that is the only way we can explain the great interest in the Club since the new policy was proposed...