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...justified a third term for Governor Herbert Henry Lehman. "Can it be," asked this Catholic onetime State Supreme Court Justice, ". . . because he is a Jew? . . . If, in order to give Roosevelt a chance to carry New York ... he and you must appoint a Jew as candidate . . . can you not select for us a candidate who . . . will exalt the Jewish reputation and know what it is all about? . . . This matter of Lehman seems to be only a pawn in the game of politics to you two who are trying to hold on to your fine jobs." Three days later Tammany...
Five members of the 1937 Album Committee met in Dunster House yesterday afternoon to select from among them the chief of next year's publication. When the session was over, Neil Gardener Melone '37, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, emerged as the successor to Deric Nusbaum '36, editor of the current edition of the Senior year book...
...Yeats himself never raises his voice above a faint chant. Absentminded, mystical, called the most complete type of fop that has ever appeared in literature, he has gone his dreamy way regardless of critical catcalls. has steadily grown in the estimation of Ireland and the world. Of the small, select number of first-rate modern poets, Yeats is certainly one. An old man now (70), he writes little new verse but indulges an oldster's privilege of reminiscence. Last week, in Dramatis Personae, he told of his part in the beginnings of an Irish National Theatre, a part that...
...were to select," says Franz Boas, "the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be represented...
...support the King the Select Committee of the Commons allotted $550,000 for the Privy Purse. Two months ago His Majesty asked Parliament to make provision for two hypothetical relatives. One was the bachelor King's future wife, to whom the Commons was last week asked to allot $200,000 a year out of the Privy Purse.* This will be kept by the Keeper of the Privy Purse until King Edward marries. The other was the hypothetical Queen's first-born son. Last week the Select Committee allotted the non-existent Prince of Wales an annual...