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...Thompson, onetime partner of Clarence Darrow: "Damn those Oxford professors! I will send some of our swine to burn down their Oxford!" Lawyer Thompson, duly brought to London from New York last week, declared under oath in the witness box that Dr. Hanfstaengl spoke exactly as quoted. What had wrought Putzy up to speak in this fashion, Mr. Thompson testified, was a reference to the condemnation of Nazi methods by numerous Britons, including some prominent Oxonians. At this provocation not even smelling salts could prevent Putzy from flying wrathfully off the handle. In court last week Dr. Hanfstaengl, admirably composed...
...most important weeks in Franklin Roosevelt's career are the 52 weeks before he stands for reelection. If he is re-elected he has an excellent chance of being written down in history as a statesman who wrought momentous changes in U. S. life. If he is defeated, historians will be tempted to set him down as a political monstrosity whom his country idolized for a few brief months of national hysteria. And the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 is, most political...
Last night in the Union a new class had its first contact with the man whose vigor has wrought many changes in the college within two short years, President Conant. The subject of his speech "independent thinking" is one which has seen frequent treatment at Harvard but the sincerity and earnestness which underlay his remarks disclose with clarity the manner of man that occupied the President's office...
...Fair. There were countless lectures by Iowa professors, social workers, Farm Bureau Federation executives on interior decoration, weaving, child psychology, farm plumbing, "Childhood Then & Now," "The Farm Woman A World Citizen." And on shelf after shelf, through aisle after aisle were stacked the products that Iowa's women had wrought from their gardens, cook stoves and work baskets. Nine hundred prizes were offered for twelve kinds of bread and rolls, 15 kinds of layer cake, 13 kinds of loaf cake, cookies, candy, popcorn balls, potato chips, spiced apples, pickles, jellies, jams, conserves, canned fruit, sun preserved fruits; for the best...
...Gallipolis hangs a wrought-iron sign, silhouetting a likeness of McIntyre at a typewriter. A legend beneath reads: "Boyhood home of O. O. McIntyre. Famous newspaperman and now writer of New York Day By Day." The Gallipolis Tribune proudly runs his column on the front page...