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...next five years three or four million housing units, which at a moderate estimate of $4,000 per unit would mean spending from twelve to 16 billion dollars, without creating a surplus of housing accommodations, and consequently without impairing the value of existing housing that is fit for decent human occupancy...
Will he walk around the grass plot as a decent citizen should, upholding his moral fortitude, but flunking, or will he take the criminal short cut, reaching the exam just in time? A question indeed, but should he flunk, Harvard architecture will have claimed another victim
...understand that these employees have chosen a union to bargain for them, and that this union has presented certain demands which you have before you. As students in the University, we feel that working conditions of those who serve us should be decent and fair. We endorse the action of the employees in seeking this end and hope that you will give their demands serious consideration...
...make these four years memorable in later life, but to relax from the rigors of studying and even to make more digestible some of the dining hall meals. Dr. Bock and his associates are in full accord with keeping their undergraduate charges happy by jokes or any other decent means, for happiness and health go hand in hand. But so called humor with a cruel or perverted twist cannot be tolerated here, and the Department is justified in taking every possible step to apprehend the guilty parties and to punish them severly. In short, funny ha-ha is welcome, necessary...
Instead of replying individually the 50 psychiatrists sent back a round robin declaring that they practiced privately because Bellevue paid them as little as $30 a week. Because of such low salaries, the round robin complained, not as many were married or had children and decent homes as would like them. Greatest surprise of the reply was its preamble, stating that it had been compiled "at a meeting called by the Association of Hospital & Medical Employes, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization." Thus for the first time it became publicly known that the physicians of an important division...