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...prolific Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Behr of Rockford, Ill., who have eight children, has played for three years on his college basketball team; also he has served its Jewish society, the B'nai B'rith, Hillel Foundation. Upon winning his prize, he was the recipient of a telegram from the New York World, asking him to give his "conception of a Christian gentleman's code of conduct." This request arrived "just as I [Behr] was bidding my fraternity brothers of Phi Sigma Delta farewell at our senior banquet," a circumstance which may have explained some...
...last week the City Council overrode the veto, six votes to three. Effective in the repassage was Novelist-Councilman Meredith Nicholson (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men, Otherwise Phyllis, etc., etc.), now serving his first term. Mr. Nicholson reported that he had received a telegram from Will H. Hays, cinema tsar, declaring that "the movies" would be ruined in Indianapolis if clocks were put ahead one hour. Mr. Nicholson retorted that he had just been in Manhattan, which seemed to be doing well on Daylight Saving Time, and averred that the cinema industry...
...York World ousted Columnist Heywood Broun because it seemed to the World that he was disloyal to the World (TIME, May 14). The New York Telegram (Scripps-Howard Newspaper) last week hired Columnist Broun because he is a liberal with a following. Said Mr. Broun: "I am glad to be on the Telegram . . . here at last I have a spot where I can lift my voice without being bothered by the fear that perhaps I am not precisely in tune with the rest of the choir. I never did like part singing...
What would next happen to the bill, upon which many a farmer's heart is set, remained a political uncertainty. President Coolidge stayed on record against the equalization fee (and Secretary Hoover, in a telegram to Indiana farmers, joined him). The McNary-Haugenites, on the other hand, talked of gathering a two-thirds majority in Congress and relieving the farmer in their own way, another Coolidge veto notwithstanding...
...telegram from the Princetonian follows...