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...speech which most Democrats studied for platform pointers, Mr. Baruch gave Governor Ritchie his first important push toward the White House. Declared this wise old Democratic counselor: "We have in our midst the perpetual* Governor of Maryland to whom the finger of Fate seems to point as being perhaps destined to move to a neighboring District...
More than that, the rumblings of rebellion against the sanctity of the game are being heard here and there throughout the country with perhaps increasing strength. Princeton alumni are dismayed by the sad record of this year's team, but the undergraduates display a bewildering indifference regarding its fate. Columbia's eleven has brightened the New York horizon by winning a few games, but the editor of the student daily has mitigated the resultant joy by charging the team with professionalism. The worst blow of all, however, has come from that foremost glorifier of the gridiron, the movies...
Books, as Francis Bacon might have remarked, are made for classical immortality, ephemeral existence culminating in tired waiting on the 98 cent stand in countless drug store emporiums, or immediate descent into oblivion and the macerating machine. Ernest Hemingway has escaped the latter fate, clearly; his readers of today are those who will decide whether he is to go down through the ages in the blurry print and sedate bindings of Everyman's edition. And this morning the Vagabond will also rise to present his luminous countenance before Dr. Carpenter in Sever 7, where the creater of tired young...
...distinct occasions TIME had definitely promised future information, which as yet has not appeared. One, the fate of a liquor store selling openly on a downtown thoroughfare of New York City; the other, the vicissitudes that had attended the winner of the first prize of last year's English sweepstakes. Let TIME brush up on these breaches of promises and bring to light other forgotten instances...
Immediate cause was the hapless fate of U. S. Lines. This consists of the following ships: Leviathan, George Washington, President Roosevelt, President Harding, America, Banker, Farmer, Merchant, Shipper, Trader, Importer, Exporter-also two fine vessels abuilding in Camden, N. J. As everyone knows this fleet was spectacularly purchased from the Government in the boom of 1929 by Banker Paul Wadsworth Chapman who proceeded to sell stock to the public on patriotic grounds. But in days when no Atlantic fleet makes any money to speak of, and with Britain's greatest Royal Mail losing millions, the prospects for an American...