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...Daughter Sarah. Born some 30 years ago, she was schooled at her father's knee and at Barnard College. At three she went with him to the polls to watch him vote straight Republican. When little Miss Sarah congratulated President Roosevelt on his birthday, he sent her a thank-you note illustrated with sketches of a macaw and of his daughter "Princess Alice." Later Miss Butler helped entertain notables. Today she is Vice Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee, a position she attained by hard political work from her election district up. Tall and dark, she stumps...
...week President Hoover appointed this president of the Arkansas Power & Light Co., the Mississippi Power & Light Co., the Louisiana Power & Light Co. and the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway to be one of the three Democratic directors of the potent Reconstruction Finance Corp. Aside from his demonstrated ability, Director Couch could thank for his appointment: 1) his personal friendship with President Hoover whom he helped out of a political hole during Arkansas' dark drought days in 1930; 2) his professional and friendly relations with Arkansas' Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson who pressed his appointment. Mr. Couch is a director of Chase...
...world has much for which to thank the mathematician at Oxford. He has given a world to children not unlike the one they live in, and to older people he has given nonsense verses not unlike the kind of nonsense verse they would write, if they wrote nonsense verse. He has written also many other things both scientific and whimsical among them being "The New Belfry" in ridicule of some bells put up at Christ Church. It may seem incomprehensible to some that a mathematician could evolve such a wonderland out of his precise, factual mind. But reflect...
...sort of triangle over which hovers the greatest menace."* The Holy Father again regretted "that statesmen do not think of the hand of God and do not turn to God." Exception: the U. S. where on Thanksgiving Day "it has been remembered [by the President in his proclamations] to thank God for past benefits and also to thank Him that in America troubles are not so grave as in other countries." Lux Veritatis. To commemorate the i,Sooth anniversary of the Council of Ephesus which reaffirmed the traditional belief that Mary was the Mother of God (TIME...
...shows Bert Lahr performing the role he made famous when the show was a Manhattan musicomedy. He is a bedazzled aviator who spends a night in a bathtub, then breaks the altitude record because he lacks sense enough to come down. Two of Flying High's best songs ("Thank Your Father," "Wasn't It Beautiful While It Lasted") have been whistled so much that they had to be left out, but in other respects the cinema improves the play...