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...Princeton President Harold Willis Dodds was to preside at his first commencement. Main feature was to be the second annual faculty-alumni forum on world affairs, with an address by Professor Tyler Dennett, president-elect of Williams. For more than two months Princeton seniors have borne on their white "beer suits" a Blue Eagle with President Dodds's head replacing the bird's. Next week the president was to hand their own class president Arthur Stephen ("Princeton's Best") Lane, the key to the university. Then Senior Lane would lead his 450 classmates behind Nassau Hall where...
...Flyer Roscoe Turner bringing greetings from the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. William Randolph Hearst had inspected the plant, repaired, repainted and 90% new in exhibits, three days before (see p. 38). Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of General Motors had marshaled 300 scientists, industrialists and economists for a grand neotechnic forum (see p. 54). But the Big Man at the new Fair's first day was neither Illinois' Governor Horner who conducted the inaugural ceremonies, nor Chicago's Mayor Kelly, who made appropriate welcoming remarks, nor Edward F. Dunne, onetime Governor of Illinois, whom President Roosevelt had appointed...
...politicians. Since President Roosevelt could not suppress the Darrow report without inviting charges that he was treating it as President Hoover had treated the Wickersham report on Prohibition, he had but two choices: 1) to dissolve the Darrow Board or 2) to continue providing Mr. Darrow with a free forum from which to attack the Administration's Recovery program and expound his own Socialistic ideals...
...basis of individual ability, rather than for the job held. Not content with educating Des Moines children, he wangled a tentative $120,000 from Carnegie Corporation in 1933 for a five-year experiment in adult education. In two years he has received $45,000, kept a Public Forum humming with lectures on current affairs. He is a Methodist, Mason, Shriner, Rotarian. Time left over from education and lodge meetings he spends studying botany, raising flowers, fishing...
...obtain a temporary injunction against the new NRA regulation on the grounds that General Johnson's amendments were "discriminatory and confiscatory." Last week NRA held hearings in Washington to give the dissenting operators a chance to put their case. The hearings also gave John L. Lewis a national forum where with nothing harder than words he soundly cracked the heads of his opponents. Onetime Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley appeared to represent two objecting coal operators from Illinois. Mr. Hurley gave assurance of his sympathy for the miners by telling that in his youth he himself had been...