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...codes have been approved. Seventy-five more will be approved by New Year. Man of the Year Johnson believes that he has put 4,000,000 people to work, has upped the national payroll $2,500,000,000 in the past half-year. Last week the President extended his blanket re-employment agreements to May i, but these have lost their importance since 70% of the nation's workers will be covered by regular codes...
...women and little children asking ''Will there be any Christmas this year?" Not the kind of Christmas that means extra comforts and luxuries; but just the supplying of the moat desperate wants of the most needy and helpless people on the face of the earth. A warm blanket for a grandmother shaking with cold and fever ($2); sandals for bleeding feet (50?); milk for the little children and the very ill; garden seeds for a leper man so that he may raise his own vegetables-perhaps with a hoe strapped to his stumps of arms; medicines...
...NEVER ORDERED ARRESTED STOP THERE WAS NO BALCONY AND I WAS IN A ROOM SEVEN STORIES FROM THE GROUND WITH AN IRON RAILING EXTENDING TO MY CHEST HEIGHT STOP YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE ACCEPTED HEARSAY EVIDENCE WHEN HE WIRED YOU I COMMITTED A NUISANCE STOP I WAS CLOTHED HAD NO BLANKET AROUND ME AND DID NOT COMMIT ANY NUISANCE EXCEPT YELL TO THE CROWD BELOW IN A CHIDING MANNER STOP...
Another, and more general problem, is the weighting which tutorial work should have in the scholarship grants. The tutorial reports now submitted are largely blanket recommendations, with an occasional blanket vote. Unless the tutorial work were rigidly graded, and this is for obvious reasons undesirable, the tutor is unwilling to assume the responsibility of affecting any man's chance to return to college by a comparative judgment, even if he were prepared to make one. The CRIMSON is inclined to the belief that this weighting cannot come to be important until the tutorial system is allowed to assume its destined...
...characterizations of reporters, press agents and politicians. Noted for his eccentric conviviality, Actor Tracy used to frequent Manhattan speakeasies with pockets full of cheese crackers and popcorn. Last week when 30,000 Mexican cadets paraded past his hotel he appeared on the balcony outside his bedroom, wrapped in a blanket. Throwing that off, he shouted profanities at the crowd, waved his arms in insulting gestures, committed a nuisance. Next morning he was ar rested. When he explained that he had forgotten what had happened, he was released. Later after a Mexican lawyer said that his daughter had been shocked, Actor...