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Crain. The nomination and election of Mr. Crain in 1929 were commonly regarded as a feat of window-dressing by Tammany Hall. Chief qualifications of Mr. Grain for his job were that he had a reputation for austerity on the bench, was a Tammany sachem, had been a jobholder for 33 of his 70 years and was a prominent Episcopalian. It is Tammany precedent to nominate a Protestant district attorney lest the ticket be too topheavy with Roman Catholics...
...sweepstakes: on length of sermons in chapel, on combinations of hymn numbers, etc., etc. Yale students in the undergraduate architecture course given by genial, pudgy, goateed Dean Everett Victor Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts once made use of his predilection for the expression tour de force (feat of strength) by getting up pools on its daily occurrence in his lectures...
...Freshman tournament with a total of 30 points to the nearest opponents' 24. Outstanding for the first year team was R. G. Ames '34, undefeated Crimson 175-pounder, who won both the preliminary and final bouts by fall. David Weld '34, participating in the 126-pound division, duplicated the feat of his team-mate. E. W. Chard '34 was the only other Crimson title-winner, gaining a referee's decision in the 135-pound contest. Stanton Whitney '34 and Harold Frankel '34 were second place winners. Whitney adding an extra point by defeating one of his opponents by fall...
...Philadelphia's unemployed last week was Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., once the city's prime Prohibition enforcer. He told a group of businessmen to "put away their yachts and declare war on hard luck." The hero of many a widely publicized feat in war and peace, General Butler has requested a leave of absence from the Marine Corps to make speeches, the proceeds of which he turns over to the idle. Said he: "I am willing to clown or circus or do anything for which they will pay me. even to walking down...
...Harvard competition. Winners will be announced about April 1, together with the names of the members of the Department of Government who grade the papers. Last year's winner, H. G. Abdian '30, who is now in the Graduate School, received honorable mention in the intercollegiate competition,--a feat exceeded only by the Harvard entry in 1928, who won first prize in the intercollegiate contest