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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Died. Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, 58, hawk-nosed, "gimlet-eyed" stormy petrel of the U. S. Marine Corps; of an abdominal ailment; in Philadelphia. Oft-decorated, multi-nicknamed General Butler, at 37 the youngest Marine officer ever to win the rank of brigadier general, fought in 14 battles and skirmishes, earned a legendary reputation for reckless bravery. His barrackroom language got him into more trouble than did his battlefield impetuosity. In 1930 he was almost court-martialed for calling Premier Mussolini a "hit-and-run driver." Retired, General Butler lectured for peace, published a book entitled...
...control system" would mete out each department's funds, deficits would end. (Three days later, indignant Franklin Roosevelt, who has not been to a C. of C. convention in seven years, told some 5,000 Democratic women that boards were no way to balance a budget, made his oft-repeated challenge: to balance the budget, which appropriation should be cut, which taxes raised...
...provided a ready field of endeavor -- that wonderful specimen of cartographic art which labels all land west of Boston as uninhabitable desert. Even within the sacred confines of the Yard, the unfortunate myth of Harvard indifference has gained appalling credence. But innocent Harvard has too long blushed under the oft repeated charges of intellectual isolation and smug localism. The University, long ready to absorb such blows flush on its scholarly chin, has at last reared up and made some vigorous attempts to fight back, to polish up the tarnished reputation of the new world Cantabrigians. In order to encourage students...
University Hall has long had the reputation of being a preparatory school for eastern prep school headmasterships. Drawing most of its material from brilliant BMOC's (big men on campus) who graduated here, the Dean's Office is the middle link in the oft-repeated student council to "baby" dean to headmaster circuit. E. Francis Bowditch '33, now headmaster of the Park School of Indianapolis, Geoffrey W. Lewis, head of Browne and Nichol's, and Francis Parkman '18, headmaster of St. Marks, are but a few of those now landed in comfortable prep school berths who started at University...
...traditions. No woman may ever brighten its doors. No dramatic critic (as with The Players) may ever become a member. Every rector of Manhattan's Church of the Transfiguration ("Little Church Around the Corner") is made an honorary member of the club, as the result of an oft-told anecdote: When Joe Jefferson sought to bury an old Lambs actor, he was turned down by the snooty rector of a Fifth Avenue church, who loftily suggested that he "try the little church around the corner." Ever since, the "little church" has enjoyed most of The Lambs...