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...very dapper, very efficient young men, with imposing records at Oxford and in the Army. When Major Hore-Belisha was promoted to Minister of Transport most of his friends were afraid that he was being laid upon a very stuffy shelf. They need not have worried. Leslie Hore-Belisha, freed of the self-abasement expected of an Under-Secretary, has proved to be the sort of politician who could make screaming daily headlines running a wet wash laundry...
...spring of 1853, just as the Big Ditch is freed of ice, Dan Harrow (Henry Fonda), a big, quiet farm boy, signs on as a mule driver for the summer. In Hennessy's strictly moral canal hotel at Rome (immoral canal hotels could be identified by their white chimneys), Dan meets Molly Larkins (June Walker). She is a pretty minx born to the Erie water. The conflict between "notional" Molly and simple Dan is the traditional one between water folk and land folk...
Indiana. Republican Senator Arthur Robinson was campaigning for re-election on the grounds that his opponent, Sherman Minton, was picked by Governor McNutt and Governor McNutt's Parole Board freed John Dillinger year and a half ago. Senator Robinson, because of his vicious personal attacks upon the White House and its occupants, would probably be the least missed man in the chamber by his Republican colleagues if defeat came his way this week...
Might it not be wiser to give fewer small scholarships and to see that a group of men are freed from financial responsibility? This would mean of course that some men would be denied an education at Harvard. It might also mean that small scholarships would not be available to men who need a little assistance. In addition, endowment terms might form an insurmountable obstacle...
...Helen Reid bore three children. One died of typhoid at the age of nine. Son Whitelaw is now at Yale, Son Ogden Jr., 9, in boarding school. Mrs. Reid slaved for women's suffrage until 1918 brought victory. Then her husband said to her: "You are freed from your suffrage work and responsibility. The Tribune needs you; come down to the office and work the paper's success out with...