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...General had hardly quit the committee room before Senators were given something new to chew on. It was a report on NRA's accomplishments by Brookings Institution, an independent Washington foundation which makes economic studies and researches. The authors were Leon C. Marshall (who prepared some of the material before leaving the Institution to become executive secretary of NIRB), Leverett S. Lyon, onetime deputy assistant NRAdministrator, and four other economists including George Terborgh, a member of the Federal Reserve Board's staff. Only excerpts from the report were made public...
...rise to place an objection before the meeting," cried a punctilious Canadian retailer. In shoe shops across the Dominion we have salespeople guilty of a worse offense in that they chew gum while waiting upon customers...
...figured that well over the requisite two-thirds of the Senate would complaisantly go along with the President. In fact, approval of the World Court seemed so imminent as to impair the Administration's strategy of using this old subject as an oratorical bone for the Senate to chew on until more important matters could be prepared for its consideration...
...bulletin stating that he had collapsed from a heart attack and had not long to live when the ex-Senator's doctor rushed in, re-examined him. Cried the doctor: "He's hungry. He just had his teeth pulled and he's not been able to chew his food." Fed, Mr. Shortridge quickly recovered...
Among the principal awards are the six Charles Dexter scholarships for the summer of 1934, enable students to visit Oxford and Cambridge in England, of the English cathedral towns.The winners are Lyman E.Butterfield 1G. of Rochester, New York; Samuel P,Chew, Jr 3G, of West River, Maryland Toy Lam son. Jr, 5G. of Cambridge; James S. McLaughlin, 2G of Oberlin, Ohio Brooklyn, New York and Francis L. Utley ,5G, of Escanaba, Michigan...