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...metallurgy department students compain that they are forced because of inadequate facilities is Rotch, to trek to the Watertown Arsenal, where they can use the government's plant. The Engineering School furnaces, they complained, would not melt the metal, and according to one there was a lone calibrated graduate for measuring materials. The accuracy of these assertions could not be checked definitely...
...where the U. S. has extraterritorial rights, to arrest and send home any U. S. citizen wanted on criminal charges at home. Thus by acting speedily the President and Congress won a race with the slow-moving freighter Maiotis, still maundering last week somewhere in the Mediterranean with its lone passenger. Henceforth Samuel Insull cannot safely land in such countries as China, Egypt, Morocco. ¶ To Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, the President sent a letter last week advocating passage of a bill taxing employers 5% of the amount of their payrolls but remitting...
...lone kayo of the evening was registered by William A. Smith '36, the Crimson 175-pounder who succeeded in flattening the Yale entrant in this event. The Harvard team won four of the bouts by decision, one by default and the other by a knockout...
...Isabella Greenway, who succeeded Budget Director Lewis Douglas as Arizona's lone Representative, fought on the floor for the project of her schoolgirl friend at whose wedding she was a bridesmaid. Cried Congresswoman Greenway: "This is a far broader issue than a furniture factory, the leading lady of the land, or the purchase of one particular commodity. . . . We are well into the experiment of decentralization of wealth, and it has to be accompanied with the decentralization of industry. . . . There are 14 of these experiments going on in the U. S. today. . . . Private industry, to my absolute knowledge, was begged...
...capital gains and losses; for placing a 35% tax on the undivided earnings of personal holding companies; for raising the penalty tax on consolidated corporate returns from 1% to 2%. When they had talked themselves dry without changing a line in the Committee draft, 390 Representatives voted "yea," seven lone Republicans cried "no." The bill was passed on to the Senate. When weeks or months hence it is returned to the House for concurrence, few Representatives will be able to recognize the bill they approved last week with such tender care...