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Jesse Isidor Straus, Manhattan department store tycoon (R. H. Macy & Co.), sailed for his post as Ambassador to France. Current among his friends at home became this cracker...
...meeting house. The Swarthmore board of managers opens its sessions silently, does business by taking the ''sense of the meeting." Swarthmore students dress simply, do not gad about Philadelphia as much as students from Haverford and U. of P. The men meet nightly in the ''Cracker Room" in their main dormitory. No beer is sold. This year the Swarthmore girls voted to disband their sororities, to which 75% belonged. Alumnae protested and the matter is still open. Yet Swarthmore is not all innocence. Two years ago Dean Alan C. Valentine, Rhodesman who is now master...
...technical knowledge required for such highly intricate operations." In an effort to quiet this talk of a foreign exchange war the U. S. Treasury issued a brief statement to the effect that no U. S. exchange equalization fund had been set up, none would be. Sinking Fund. A sharp cracker in Chancellor Chamberlain's Budget...
...came a cracker: "These inquiries have allowed us to establish a general basic plan to be undertaken in the near future ... by collaboration with the Associated Press and the Havas news agency. . . . The Quai d'Orsay assures the technical and financial control of this news service...
...companion, twice-married Mrs. Victoria Price, with whom (and seven white boys) she bummed her way to Chattanooga and back. Mrs. Price says she supports herself & mother on the $13 a month she makes at a Huntsville cotton mill. In court she appeared the last word in cracker chic. She still sticks to her story that the Negroes threw six of her seven white male companions off the train, stripped her, raped her at knife's point...