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...part of its funds was to be used for city housing. To date $46,219,958 has been allotted for that purpose. But bankers with delinquent mortgages and landlords with vacant property have doggedly opposed slum clearance. Last week the Public Works Administration, convinced that it could not "depend upon private enterprise or limited dividend corporations to initiate slum clearance," set up an emergency housing corporation...
...Playfair is Harvard's best prospect in the race. Last year, he lost no races, and against the Yale Freshmen he won first in both the 1500-meter run, and the 3000-meter run. Pier has consistently led the varsity squad in practice and in meets, and much will depend upon him in the coming races...
...different level and even the franc from its moorings. But when this has been achieved, the real point at issue will be whether American commodity prices have been materially improved. Those that are international, like wheat and cotton, will go up as does gold. Other products will depend in the future, as in the past, on the demand for them. And demand depends on confidence and spending power, both of which have not yet come with full force in the domestic program of the administration
...have short, strong legs to suit a heavy, stumpy little man like Beethoven, a comfortable back so that the player could sit relaxed and let his shoulder muscles work for him. Nowhere in New York was such a chair to be found. Pianists like Rachmaninoff and Iturbi who depend mostly on their wrists use stools without backs. Paderewski and Hofmann who play more from their shoulders use chairs with backs which tip forward a little. None of these suited Artur Schnabel, the square-headed little Austrian who was to solo with the Philharmonic-Symphony. Finally one was made...
...Although France alone can prevent important revisions of the Versailles Treaty in the League Council by making use of the unanimity rule, she has always been able to justify her position in the public eye by mustering to her support the smaller powers which depend for their very existence upon a preservation of the status quo. In the eyes of the World, France naturally is in a more favorable position as one of several nations opposing revision rather than as a single power refusing to be budged from the top of the pile. It is the necessarily stand-pat atmosphere...