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...desire to legislate for mature manhood under the prohibition rule. He is tolerant of every man's personal rights. He will serve a drink at his home to a guest of the age of discretion, if it is desired. By the same token he will use his utmost resources to spare the growing youth of this country from the pitfalls of alcohol. This, he believes, is the inner feeling also of those men who claim they 'can handle...
...several years ago by one of those present. In 1926 His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, paid a visit to New Haven, and the Yale University authorities, agog over the rare opportunity of entertaining royalty, made preparations to celebrate this happy event with the utmost dignity and propriety. There was to be an exclusive little luncheon for only the mightiest figures of academic renown and of local society, then a reception for the rest of town and gown deemed eligible to meet a genuine prince. Nothing was overlooked except that the committee neglected to ascertain that...
...Hitler were right, from their points of view, in thinking that now was the time, before Britain has completed her rearmament, to throw heavier forces into Spain and try to secure on that peninsula a Fascist triumph which the stout-hearted Britons of 1914 would have resisted to the utmost...
Belgium's Premier Paul van Zeeland may be in the U. S. for purposes of utmost international importance (TIME, June 14), but the ostensible reason for his trip was to receive this week from Princeton University, in whose graduate school he studied 17 years ago, an honorary LL.D. On the platform the premier will meet again his good and potent friend, U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, there for the same purpose. Recalling two notable Harvard LL.D.'s-the Marquis de Lafayette (1784) and Prince Henry of Prussia (1902)-Princeton's van Zeeland provided...
Those who remember the Janet Gaynor of "Sunny Side Up" (1929), and have been disappointed in her later vehicles, will find their faith has not been misplaced. In "A Star Is Born," Miss Gaynor finds opportunity to display her wide range of acting ability to the utmost, and Technicolor is most becoming to her appearance on the screen. She plays the part of the small town girl who goes to the film colony to make good, finally landing a job and a husband when she meets the studio big shot, Fredric March...