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Five times last week did the bishops in the chapter house send slates to the college in the Cathedral. Five times did the names on the slate fail of a majority vote. Then on the sixth slate presented the electors agreed upon Rt. Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen, 58, bishop of Niagara and Toronto. Born in England like most of Canada's 1,600 Anglican clergymen, he was educated in Toronto and Lennoxville, Que., held rectorships in Toronto and Hamilton, became bishop...
This year, however, with the progress of Roosevelt recovery and the coincident rise in the birth rate, the squirrels have repeatedly threatened to overrun the Yard. Stringent measures have indeed been necessary to keep down the slate colored hordes, and to prevent the steady demolition of the foundations of such derelict edifices as Brooks House by the eroding action of countless razor-sharp molars...
...disbanded when betting was outlawed in New York. He usually rides in an open Rolls Royce. His stool is No. 1 in the bookmakers' line. Indefatigable, taciturn, phenomenally quick at mental arithmetic, "Long Tom" Shaw is considered so shrewd that his confreres often station their assistants near his slate to observe his odds. When they cannot get in close, they watch from a distance with field glasses...
David E. Lilienthal of the Tennessee Valley Authority: "If the private utilities are unable or unwilling to clean the slate, they will find it very difficult to convince investors to risk further capital in this essential business. . . . There is no basis for the hysterical cries of those who see, or pretend to see disaster ahead for the electric industry. Can it be that they are deliberately trying to depress the prices of sound senior securities, so that they can be bought in at hysteria prices...
...sitting Democrats in Congress were renominated, including Mrs. Virginia Jenckes of Terre Haute who was opposed by the local Democratic organization but backed by the A. F. of L. Governor Paul V. McNutt apparently failed to get his picked slate of delegates elected to the State convention which will choose a Democratic nominee to run against Senator Arthur R. Robinson next November. The victory went to Reuben Earl Peters, onetime State Chairman, who will probably be Indiana's Democratic candidate for the Senate...