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Speaking before the National Conference on Students in Politics, Secretary Wallace did not neglect the old temptation to shake his finger at the colleges, at those who direct them, and at those who are studying in them. In succumbing to this temptation, Mr. Wallace has not avoided its usual corollary of general and unfocused abuse. The straw men of football overemphasis and college dances are laboriously set up, and laboriously knocked down again. But in the conclusion of his address, Mr. Wallace showed that he has gone a stage beyond; he believes that the youth of America is instinctively persuaded...
...Vridar's boarding house, helps to complete his disillusioning education. "Forenoon," a devil with the women, is always after Vridar to join him in his forays. But Vridar considers himself engaged to easy-going Neloa Doole at home. Besides, when he gets near a girl he begins to shake. When he hears that Neloa has been going around with other men. however, he does his best to emulate "Forenoon," but has no luck. Home for the summer, he finds that Neloa still loves him, according to her lights, but has indeed bestowed her favors on several casual callers. Vridar...
When civic organizations howled with rage, Mayor O'Brien replied that since city officials contributed part of their salaries to the pension fund it was not true that "all you had to do was shake the tree and the plums come tumbling down." Later it was discovered that of $144,000 earmarked to keep the O'Briens from starvation, the Mayor had contributed exactly $28,000, the city having put up the rest...
Because Josef Stalin had never deigned to receive the Ambassador of a capitalist power, Moscow waited curiously to see whether he would shake hands with President Roosevelt's alert and smiling Ambassador William Christian Bullitt. As the train carrying Mr. Bullitt and nine-year-old daughter Anne rolled from Poland into Russia this week he was met at the frontier by undersecretaries of the Soviet Foreign Office who pointed out that so much honor had never been done by the Soviet Government to a foreign diplomat before. Banqueted on the spot in the frontier railway station, Guest Bullitt...
...Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, now working temporarily for Tycoon Henry Latham Doherty as aviation chairman of his Florida Year-Round Clubs. Flying from Florida to New York last week he paused in Washington long enough to go to the bustling Department of Commerce building and shake hands with his successor, Eugene Luther Vidal...