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...still a Republican. The friendly bread-breaking with Governor Pinchot at the White House cost the President nothing. It is part of the Presidential policy to remain on good terms with Republicans of the Norris-Cutting-Johnson-Pinchot stamp, while always reserving the hope that a good Democrat may trim them in an election...
Sunday in trim, flowery little Sofia last week was an idyllic summer day. Citizens sat in the cafes as if nothing had happened since King Boris married his Italian princess four years ago. But all had changed since two nights before when Fascist army officers seized the Government, booted out all elected politicians, jailed 800 and foisted Fascism on Bulgaria...
After meeting a powerful Princeton team Saturday morning and going down to a 7 to 2 defeat, the Varsity golf team displayed a courageous fight in the afternoon to trim Pennsylvania 6 to 3 over the Dartmouth course at Hanover. New Hampshire...
...trim, black-haired youth waited in line two days to register for a general commerce course in Notre Dame University. By the time he reached the registrar's desk a friend had persuaded him to switch to an architectural course. After one year at Notre Dame, he went to Catholic University in Washington, D. C. from which he graduated in 1929. During the next five years he taught as part-time instructor at Catholic University, worked in architects' offices in Washington and Manhattan, once won a Beaux Arts prize but was too hard up to go to Paris...
...street dirt while two pianos played jazzy music by Will Irwin, and Howard Phillips, a radio tenor, declaimed Mrs. Shipman's verses, gesticulating passionately. Whirling papers, dusty mops, cans, cans, pots and pans brought on lugubrious germs which attacked a group of innocent children. A dozen trim sweepers saved the situation by singing the Clean City Committee's Marching Song. Excerpt...