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After weeks of argument and revision, the new French tariff on automobiles framed by Minister of Commerce Pierre Etienne Flandin was approved last week by the Tariff Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, recommended for swift enactment. U. S. dealers studied it ruefully, admitted that "it might have been worse...
...with Martha Blount, but realizing the hopelessness of his getting married, he transferred his affections to food. His most famed affair (purely conversational, literary) was with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Says Biographer Sitwell: "Pope's tongue was in his cheek. Pope was a lifelong friend of great Dean Jonathan Swift, 21 years his senior. Swift was parsimonious, but generous to his friends; once when Pope and Gay came to see him he asked them to stay to supper?they had supped; to drink?they preferred talk. The Dean then figured how much he had saved by their refusal, gracefully presented...
...Indianapolis, Ind., three youths pleaded guilty to holding up banks. Said they, Harry Reed, William Stone, George Swift: "We have been in a dance marathon. We didn't know what we were doing. We were wrecks, physically and mentally, and had been doped so long we couldn't sleep. We had been doped for weeks. It was all hazy afterwards...
...lavish use of slanguage, the late Jack Conway is largely responsible. Conway, once a professional baseball player, once a streetcar conductor, was employed when the paper was in its kicking, yelping infancy. A swift writer, he compounded the argot of the ball park, the slum and the green room, helped make possible such journalistic enigmas as: "Crusading Tab Bailies Biz Into Rough Joints," "Ruined by Grift, Carnival Goods Men Turn to Bridge Prize Trade," "Wellman No Like, He Walks...
...will play opposite Juliet Browne as Mrs. Cheyney, with the other female leads taken by Corliss Wilber, president of the Idler, and Mary Crist. R. N. Clark Jr. '32 will play the second male role. Other Harvard actors in the cast will be B. H. Junker '33, J. C. Swift '32, D. E. Roundes ocC, Carleton Greene '30, and E. D. Greene...