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Secretary Ickes is a short, paunchy man with thin grey hair and a mouth that twists up into strange shapes. Behind his gruff manner lies dry humor. He likes to call himself a "lone wolf" in politics. Few regular politicians of either party can guess which way Lone Wolf Ickes will jump next. Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, his wife, whose inheritance is sufficient to leave them both free for politics, is now serving her third term as a regular Republican in the Illinois Legislature. The Insull debacle has been the latest and largest Ickes target...
...Dodge, Jr. '33. Harvard will be represented in the two-mile relay by G. P. Rosen '33, John Wiggins '33, J. B. White '34, and E. F. Bowditch '35, while Arthur Foote II, '33 will run for the Crimson in the two-mile run. A lone Harvard entry, J. S. Hayes '33 will run in the mile. The other Harvard sprinters, J. C. Grady '33 and J. J. Hayes, Jr. '34, will compete in the hurdles...
...classicist--these were the opposing forces which shaped the life of Thomas Carlyle. The land tore the veils from his vision, made him a poet and a seer--the other involved him in a nebulous World-Idea and a style of tortured courage. Never did one man, and a lone Scotchman, strive to embody in himself ideals so contradictory--guessing like a child about Mirabeau, about Lafayette, and guessing rightly, but struggling with words and phrases which stretched like impossible pagodas into a German sky. Stormy, ill-tempered, tenacious to truth and error alike, once he had spoken...
Gardella, first string center, scored Arlington's lone goal late in the third period. He was the outstanding player for the high school...
...fundamental obstacle to academic freedom in this country. The entire educative mechanism is bound up in a complex of interdependencies which hamper free action. President Butler adroitly approves the theory and forbids the act, just as do so many other leaders of education; they are all accountable to some lone who would be injured by an undue enthusiasm over truth. It is certain that freedom in teaching is desirable. But it is a futile hope until the departmental and the endowment systems are so altered as to make of them aids' rather than chains...