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...under Soviet conditions that, according to the baffled Communists, many holy men now preach in Russia in the following vein, which was quoted by comrades as a typical example: "Jesus was of proletarian origin, the son of Joseph the carpenter and of a toiling woman. It is necessary to explain that Jesus Christ was the great Socialist and Communist predecessor of the Communist Party...
...Newark, N. J., Mr. & Mrs. Benno Bongart, called into court to explain the truancy of their sons Robert, 11, and William, 12, maintained that Robert and William were learning more at home than they had in suburban West Orange's Washington Public School. The Bongarts withdrew their boys in April when they heard that the principal beat one of them. At home Mrs. Bongart, a onetime Hunter College student, teaches them from old history and geography texts, prescribes excerpts from magazines and newspapers. Father Bongart, a mechanical engineer, teaches them drawing. Into court to testify that New Jersey teachers...
Thomas H. Eliot '28, legal adviser of the Social Security Board, will explain the purpose and actions of the Board at Dunster House Monday evening. It is expected that he will also defend the Social Security...
...Captain James A. Mollison, Britain's No. 1 flyer, off on his fourth transatlantic flight. To explain his costume he smirked: "I don't want to lose any time getting to a party once I land at Croydon." Of late, Captain Mollison and his famed flying wife, Amy Johnson Mollison, have been noted more for the frequency of their parties than for the brilliance of their flying. Fortnight ago Amy made a bad landing in Kent, buried her plane's nose in the ground, broke her own nose on the dashboard. Mortified, she took the occasion...
Promptly raised by this decision was a corporate question which President Robert E. Wood undertook to explain in a letter to his 34,500 stockholders. This year, he declared, Sears would probably do a $500,000,000 business, a record. Only four years ago total sales were $276,000. To handle this tremendous increase in volume Sears had to carry bigger inventories, more accounts receivable. The rise in these two items alone required $60,000,000 of additional working capital, a sum provided part by bank loans, part by profits. In the normal course, wrote President Wood, the bank loans...