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Taken as a whole the class of 1936 can find little cause for complaint in the four year period which is destined to shape their undergraduate career. True, they enter College at a time when family and University budgets are severely restricted to essentials, a condition which necessitates a definite curtailment of extra, nonetheless agreeable conveniences. But this handicap, if such indeed it can honestly be termed, is far offset by two notable advantages. Today, as Freshmen, they will find men's minds quickened to thought and imagination by the problems of the present crisis; to the eager student such...
Ballyhoo of 1932. "As clean and wholesome as the magazine!" promises Comedian Bob Hope from an upper box labeled "Complaint Department" a moment before Ballyhoo's many-hued curtain goes up. The revue (written by Ballyhoo magazine's editor, Norman Anthony) keeps its leering promise. Able Comedian Willie Howard struggles home on a street car with the most essential fixture for his bathroom; with Brother Eugene he tries to make a papier-mâché cow "give"; on a Columbus Circle soap box he makes a Communist speech: "Rewolt! Our cup of beeterness ees feeled...
...Herald & Examiner pictured Banker Dawes as having to begin his career anew, returning to the day in 1902 when as an able young man of 37 he organized Central Trust Co. of Illinois. Under his guidance it grew into the Loop's third largest bank. The chief complaint of Banker Dawes, 67 last fortnight, is that he can no longer obtain underslung hubble-bubble pipes. Though the institution he built may be razed, Banker Dawes could probably take with him at least $50,000,000 of old Central Republic deposits if he decided to found a new bank...
...defendants made prudent inquiry into the ... affairs of International," Irving Trust charged in the complaint, "or had they exercised a reasonable and prudent management of International, or had . . . caused to be presented to them . . . certified audits made in accordance with standard accounting methods, or had . . . properly discharged their duties ... all the misapplication, conversion, waste, depletion and loss of International's assets would have been prevented...
...Wilmington, Del. Valuing its trade mark at $5,000,000, N. B. C. said it had been damaged to the extent of $250,000, asked an injunction against the manufacture of "shredded wheat" by Kellogg. Last week Kellogg retaliated. In New York's Federal Court it filed a complaint under the Sherman anti-trust laws, charging unfair competition, coercion, monopoly. Kellogg claimed that patents on the shredded wheat process have long since expired, that it has been kept out of competition by efforts of N. B. C. "to coerce & intimidate the trade by threats of suits, ... by employing...