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...available to the sick student. Your condemnation of it is based solely on the triviality that the corridors leading to the X-ray room are drafty. But if you could see the care in keeping the building clean, airy, and pleasant, I believe you would overlook the fault...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The More the Merrier | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...provide an unemployment, old age, and social insurance for all--at the expense of the national government. He would give a "just compensation" of $10 a week, plus $3 for each dependent to all workers and farmers--some 15,000,000--above eighteen years of age, unemployed through no fault of their own. In case average local wages were higher than $10 a week--and in many communities this would certainly be true-- all unemployed would receive as dole an amount equal to average local wages. Taxation necessary to provide the $12,000,000,000 yearly to finance this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW MENACE | 3/13/1935 | See Source »

...disgrace, since everyone knows whose fault it is that Soviet railways remain in an appalling mess, Comrade Andreyev was honored by being appointed one of the four potent secretaries of the Communist Party Central Committee. Into the curiously bloody and repugnant job of Commissar of Railways, Dictator Stalin last week put big. iron-nerved Comrade Lazar Kaganovich who has just built the first eight miles of Moscow's projected 50-mile subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Major Mystery | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...guess it was all partly my fault," said she recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gaiety Duchess | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

Perhaps she was never as strong and sturdy as her builders calculated on paper. Perhaps she had never really recovered from an old rib injury last year. Perhaps the wet windy weather had something to do with it. Or perhaps the crew was somehow at fault. Nevertheless orders are orders and therefore the U.S.S. Macon soared away from her Sunnyvale mooring mast on schedule early one morning last week to take her usual part in fleet maneuvers off the California coast. In command of the Navy's one & only dirigible and her 82 officers & men was Lieut. Commander Herbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Last of the Last | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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