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Between Senator Borah and the deep sea was William Allen White, the Landon representative on the Resolutions Committee. The Landonites wished to placate Mr. Borah, lest he somehow upset their well-laid nomination plans. Well did they know how to proceed. Since Senator Borah, for all his noble traits of character, would never willingly become a member of the Twelve Apostles or of any group larger than one, he could be won to Landon only by giving him some unique privilege. That privilege was to speak with ultimate authority on those planks which most appealed...
...protesting Xieman kin also upset the plan of the Journal's ruddy Publisher Harry Johnston ("The Chief"') Grant to take over, along with Mr. Nieman's niece Fay McBeath and any Journal employes who could afford to buy in the 1,100 shares of Journal stock which Mr. Nieman left in trust. The Xieman trust represents 55% of the paper's controlling interest. Of the remaining 900 shares, Mr. Grant already owns 400, while 500 are held by Mrs. Susan Boyd of Wilmington, Del., widow of a onetime Journal business manager. The Grant plan would create...
Once again the celibacy of the College has been preserved by the noble efforts of Jerome D. Greene '96. Nearly a month ago the serenity of the Tercentenary office was upset by the announcement of the appointment of a woman Undergraduate delegate...
...between two black-gowned barristers acting temporarily as judges, Sir Samuel Lowry Porter sat in his own courtroom, King's Bench No. i, not to try a criminal case, but to act as a court of inquiry in a scandal that for a time threatened last week to upset the British Cabinet...
...whenever economic pressures increase. As the food shortage grows more serious in Rome, also do the "victory songs" grow louder and Italian medicinemen beat the tom-toms of hate and self-adulation with increasing gusto. Mussolini is faced with increased living costs, an unbalanced budget, a shortage and an upset foreign trade, and he has realized that only by playing on the passions of his Latin populace can he divert its minds from dwelling upon its economic position or physical sufferings...