Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Past. The daughter of a Russian Jew buttonhole maker in Manhattan's lower East Side slums, Ruth Laeger, sexually precocious at 8, had been raped by a 55-year old grocer when she was 11. At 14 her mother took her into Children's Court for her continued relations with this man. She spent a year in a reformatory, left with a very bad behavior record. She worked as a department store salesgirl, was arrested for stealing merchandise, received a suspended sentence. Two months later she repeated her offense, went to prison. Released on parole, she consorted with...
Relentlessly the final hour struck at midnight. Into effect went the new Egyptian tariff law, carrying a broad schedule of increased duties. Winners were those merchants who had received the biggest stocks of goods under the old and lower tariff. So great was the rush, so swift the race that customs receipts at Alexandria for the 30 days just passed amounted to $1,000,000, whereas last year during the same period they were only...
...against 114,000,000 a year ago, and an average of only 47,000,000 for the last ten years. Other crops have been bountiful; the new U. S. crop is germinating. Europe is buying in small quantities, and from Argentina and Russia. These factors have created a generally lower level; more specific causes were suggested as helping last week's downpour...
Indignant Rutgers (New Brunswick, N. J.) undergraduates got their Student Council to petition the faculty to investigate the cause of their receiving such low marks in their Midyear Examinations. Dean Walter Taylor Marvin of the College of Arts & Sciences admitted that the two under classes had made lower marks than corresponding classes a year...
...Last Mile is written by John Wexley. onetime actor with Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre, now playing the locksmith in Leo Bulgakov's revival of Maxim Gorki's At the Bottom, familiarly known as The Lower Depths (TIME, Jan. 20). It is said that his play follows the outline of actual events which took place in Colorado, that he has utilized Death House dialog as transcribed by an inmate. The play is performed by a cast of 16 men. It is an experience for those who can stomach...