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...Institution will soon select the lucky students, both women and men, to attend the Washington school during February and March...
...Freshman follows such a procedure and is constantly searching for subjects which interest him he will not be likely to select a field of concentration which will later prove uninteresting and dull. By the time it is necessary to make a decision he will have definite reasons to guide his choice and will not have to trust to intuition or chance...
Within the two great parties more picking and choosing for the November elections is done the second week in September than at any other time during the year. Last week partisans in ten States held their primaries to select candidates...
Demagog into Dictator. When New Orleans Democrats went to the polls to select two Congressmen, a State Supreme Court judge and a Public Service commissioner, Senator Huey Pierce Long had mobilized Louisiana's entire national guard to insure a "clean election." He had also made his Legislature pass enough laws month before to turn over to his henchmen complete control of the electoral machinery (TIME, Aug. 27). No match for the "Kingfish" in legislative wiles, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley had an augmented police force of 2,000 which nearly equalled Senator Long's militant manpower...
...said to be worth $15,000,000 as late as 1932 and is considered one of France's richest woman. Even 35 years ago openings attended by such widespread public interest as those of last week were unheard of. Before the War the couturiers of Paris were a small, select group catering to the queens and grandes dames of Europe. Even these moneyed customers consulted a couturier only when they wanted dresses for particularly grand occasions and were willing to spend as much as $1,000 for a brocaded ball gown. For everyday clothes?street dresses, afternoon frocks, sportswear?...