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...the101st time if the route via Iceland and Greenland, which he had surveyed thrice in three years, were "feasible." Above all he wished they would leave so he might go to bed. As if to persuade them that he really was not worth so much fuss, he said...
...cancelled at the White House, correspondents predicted in print that this contact system had been abolished. The next conference was not cancelled. Explained the President: "You know I've been fairly busy recently." Then he read a mimeographed statement about signing the Home Loan Bank bill. ¶ Without fuss or feathers, President Hoover signed the Unemployment Relief Bill...
...Amerind history. is a woman named Kai Kai who lives near Anadarko, Okla. Kai Kai, 83, pretends that she is dull and sullen. That is to protect her from importunate people. Really she is shrewd, intelligent, full of energy. Last week she knew that Anthropology was making a fuss about her solitary survival, that Dr. Alexander Lesser, financed by the Committee on Research in Native American Languages, was transcribing & translating Kitsai history as she had dictated it to him the past two summers. He is also preparing a Kitsai grammar to preserve the tongue. Last week he sent...
...Chapman '35, L. A. Cook '34, T. L. Dammann '35, A. B. Deardon '34, G. R. Divens '35, Jarvis Farley '32, D. A. Fuss '32, A. B. Gardner '33, C. T. Hall '34, G. M. Hazelton '33, H. E. Holm '35, Frederick Ireland '33, G. N. Johnson '34, J. R. Keim '34, W. H. Kerr '34, R. W. Kuhl...
Nowhere have I seen or heard any evidence that the Class President, the Class Vice-President, the Class Secretary-Treasurer are worth the fuss and bother of their election. All their duty is to nominate their successors; all their qualifications are glory on the athletic field and dance floor; all their constituency is the mere handful of friends who are for the moment sufficiently non-indifferent enough to cast rose petals at their feet through a vague sort of Private School Spirit. No majority enthusiasm or representative election ever seems to take place; the same old Back Bay names...