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...where Joseph Grundy, famed campaign cash collector, tariff lobbyist and onetime Senator, has "retired'' politically, he encountered the leanest pickings in years. But after the Maine election Treasurer Nutt reported to the White House (and the public): "This is making my job easier. People who want to maintain the present administration in power have gone to work and the money is coming in. I'm sure now we can raise $1,500,000.''* G. O. P. headquarters got out a 288-page campaign text book which, instead of being given away as heretofore, was sold...
Toward the Faculty and affairs scholastic, Acting President Duffield proposes to maintain a judicial rather than executive attitude. He will not go popping his head into classrooms or make long speeches at faculty meetings. The academic side of Princeton will remain in the capable hands of Dean of the Faculty Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, a quiet, smiling little mathematician, baseball addict, Princeton teacher for 32 years, whose memory is so prodigious that he needs no filing cabinets in his office. Dean Eisenhart's monument is Princeton's famed four-course plan, instituted in 1924, by which upper-class students choose...
...Despite brave announcements from the New York office that the strike would not affect sailings of the Holland America Line, neither the Rotterdam nor the Volendam was able to leave her home port last week. A government commission announced that it could settle the strike if owners agreed to maintain the present wage scale until March. Only five companies agreed...
...Rome last week Signer Achille Starace, abrupt Secretary General of the Fascist Party, ordered that "to maintain the dignity of Fascist customs" the Official shout will no longer be given "except when saluting II Duce." Lesser Fascist leaders will receive silent salutes, out-stretchings of the right arm at an upward inclination...
...that every human led a happy life of action regulated by reason. Every inhabitant would do his proper share of work (the Soviet intention). For proof that Society could thus be run he suggested that Parliament should "found an experimental, voluntary, selfsupporting colony . . . of say 100,000 persons to maintain themselves and continually to increase their wealth when freed from the restraints and social errors of modern civilization." As a site for the experiment he suggested "one of the States of North America," or France...