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...reappears, Death is wearing the monocle and white breeches of a minor Mediterranean prince. He amuses himself more than the Duke's other guests with macabre little quips like "I have known many four bottle men . . ." and ''Considering your distinction and age it is surprising that Fate has not introduced us before." There are moments of embarrassed silence around the ducal dinner table as Prince Sirki's behaviour grows increasingly enigmatic. The most painful arrives when the Duke has to reveal the true identity of his guest. This is after the Prince has made it clear...
...hours of that last morning of balloting at the famous Chicago Convention of July, 1932, Mr. Roosevelt's fate hung in the hands of just a handful of men. A mistake of judgment then and the nomination might have been blocked and a compromise candidate chosen, perhaps Newton Baker or Gover nor Ritchie...
...greatest part of it. The large, childish Tammon is given as much space, and every line about him is worth reading. There is no more amusing tale than that of Tammen and his struggles to breed a baby elephant for his circus, the Sells-Floto; and the final fate of the last, stuffed, baby pachyderm, which Tammen kept in a case in the Post offices, is told with fine pathos. The remarkable paper which the partners built comes in likewise for a good share of the author's effort. Here in relation of the almost unbelievable productions of the Bonfils...
What will be the fate of America, long used to sectionalism and politics devoted to obscuring economic conflicts, when she is shoved into this new situation? Will it be the Scylla of Communism or the Charybdis of Fascism? Positing that the later Greek City-States occupied a position parallel except for size with the modern state, Professor Holcombe calls in Aristotle to tell us what is possible and desirable. Let the middle class rule! Using the Communist theorist Bukharin's classification of classes he finds that the American urban middle class in alliance with the land-owning farmers can dominate...
...those who are are wondering what is to be the fate of Harvard College under the New Deal which President Conant has set forth for Harvard University, Dean Hanford's report will be an extremely significant document. The specific reforms which he suggests are almost starting in their progressiveness. But of more importance than these is the general trend of through which underlies his proposals. As President Lowell left office, Harvard was in a period of slack water, a period in which the great innovations of the past two decades had yet to be reconciled with the old academic machinery...