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...University of Omaha has had the ''Municipal" in its title for only four years. Before that it was as rock-ribbed a private Presbyterian institution as ever had a 9 o'clock curfew for students under 18. One year of Depression was enough to break it and in 1931 the city took it over. The school board appointed nine regents and the regents called Dean Sealock of the Uni-versity of Nebraska College of Education to put the university on its feet...
...before a bronze bust of Alexander Hamilton was unveiled atop the Palisades on the rock upon which he rested his head after being fatally wounded by Aaron Burr, a Manhattan autograph dealer announced he had acquired from the descendants of Burr's second, William P. Van Ness, the correspondence which led up to the duel. Included was Burr's opening letter wherein he told Hamilton: "I send for your perusal a letter signed Ch. D. Cooper. . . . Mr. Van Ness . . . will point out to you that clause of the letter to which I particularly request your attention." Hamilton...
...discomforts incident to following such a versatile leader as Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Robinson can congratulate himself today on one of the most comfortable places in public life. Some two months of the year he and his wife spend in their rambling, old-fashioned frame house in Little Rock. He also finds time to travel abroad as a statesman, a taste which he acquired from attending Interparliamentary Union conferences in England and serving as delegate to the London Disarmament Conference in 1930. For fun he likes nothing better than to go fishing and shooting (he is a crack shot) with Harvey...
...other candidates : politics being as sectional as they are in the U. S., the more a politician changes from a big man at home to a big man in the country at large, the weaker grows his political backing at home. Thus from Senator Robinson's standpoint Little Rock is no longer Gibraltar. If he wants to serve another six years in the Senate his advisers tell him he will probably have to take off his cutaway in 1936 and hump himself through a lively campaign...
...mouthed, Harry Chandler is a teetotaler, eschews all forms of exercise except mowing the lawn a bit. When the first drop of perspiration runs down his nose, he quits. He has eight children, four of whom work for the Times. He is still at 71 a good trader. A rock-ribbed Republican and great personal friend of Herbert Hoover, he made Democratic Los Angeles pay him well for the inconvenience of moving one block up First Street last week into the fine new Times building...