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Same day Messrs. Green and Murray, up before the Senate Labor committee, wheeled into range of Mr. McNutt and laid down a barrage calculated to destroy every living thing for miles around. Murray shot the heaviest load, dismissing most of McNutt's proposals as "sheer nonsense," and saying flatly...
...Corps never worked out practically. Reasons: 1) the Army found the specialists' civilian status a nuisance; 2) the Corps could not hold a man against the draft; 3) the Army was leary of men whose health disqualified them for normal service, for fear they would eventually be a load on the Treasury; 4) the Army, especially the Services of Supply, appointed its own officers directly out of civilian life...
...Widener last Saturday there were only ten copies of Stevenson, History I textbook, and about twenty men asked for each copy. Already a load of extra chairs have been dumped into the reading room and they are filled till ten o'clock every night. These facts seem to be clear enough indication that rush is on. Not only will 1200 odd History, Government, and Economics readers continue to swell the crowd flocking through the white pillars, but with the Union Library locked up they will be joined by hundreds of other Freshmen. The House libraries, primarly intended for tutorial...
...amateur cast would find its talents inhibited by repeated mechanical difficulties, and a heavy load falls upon the Playhouse's experienced wheelhorses. Burt French, Katherine Whitfield, Carol Wheeler, and John Rand '43 support the double triangle around which the plot moves. Adele Thane as a scatterbrain middle-aged wife is glaringly miscast; she parboils the comic two thirds of her part and convincingly portrays a dramatic third act. Make-up difficulties hamper Robert Bastille'43, for his audience cannot forget that they see a Harvard man disguised as a sexagenarian...
...bill of the American people: one is through borrowing, the other taxation. The greater the amount of war expenditures paid for now by taxation the stronger will be the future economic foundation of the country once the war is over. The Government will be faced with a smaller debt load, which in any terms will be stupendous, and the people will be burdened with a lesser weight of taxation. To tax heavily now is to gain greater economic protection for the future...