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...Home give local bootleggers, prostitutes & gamblers rushing business twice a month when the pension checks arrive. When five inmates were taken to the Home's infirmary poisoned by liquor at 25? the quart. State Senator Joseph N. Ackerman asked Ohio's Governor George White to place the area surrounding the Home under martial law to correct "rotten" conditions...
...Hughes would not discuss the use of military force: "The question ... is simply with respect to the Governor's attempt to regulate by executive order the lawful use of complainants' property. . . ." The decision was the signal for a general slashing of crude prices throughout the Mid-Continent area last week. Texas Co., which led the way, downed its posted price from $1.10 to 75? a barrel. Oilmen had seen the cut coming for some time, for injunctions against proration agreements were piling up and gasoline stocks had become unwieldy. An abortive effort was made last October to boost...
Although more than one-third of the jobs secured were in New England, the geographical distribution was over a wide area, with more than 12 percent of the positions being found in the far west. Another 12 percent took work in Boston and vicinity, and ten percent went to New York and New Jersey. The middle west placed more that one-four of the teachers, but the south took somewhat under ten percent of the applicants
...assure close cooperation between the House teams and the Harvard Athletic Association in such matters as equipment, playing area and coaches, and in accordance with the suggestion of the Student Council, I appointed the Director of Intra-mural Athletics, Adolph W. Samborski '25, to be Secretary of the House Athletic Committee. In the administration of House athletics Mr. Samborski has no instructions from us, other than to offer his experience to help the House Committee. On the other hand, he does not knowingly allow a House to default in athletics because of the improper selection of an unqualified representative...
...Looking somewhat like a dove-sized penguin, the little auk is helpless on land. It feeds chiefly on a type of water bug found only at sea, needs the impetus of a wave to get into the air. Of nearly 100 picked up in New York's metropolitan area last week, only four survived...