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...always come back after a municipal purging. Ahearn's youth and vitality may be sorely needed for the comeback. Kiss. Straw votes gathered by the Literary Digest, Daily News, Brooklyn Eagle and RKO theatres indicated last fortnight that LaGuardia was leading O'Brien by a wide margin. When McKee entered the race, the nucleus of his support was Democratic votes taken back from LaGuardia, plus defections from Tammany. Last week there were signs that he would get a lot of Republican votes too. The city's leading G. O. Partisans like Ruth Pratt and Ogden Mills were...
...Code's administrative board and its local committees. Neglect of consumers, he warned, was likely to be disastrous. And then Mr. Percy took a look at the disputed Article VIII: "If retail groups can fix prices at ... cost plus 10%," reasoned Mr. Percy, "they may logically raise the margin to 15%, 25% or even higher. The adoption of such a principle . . . will choke the free flow of commerce and shrink volume. . . . Sugar coating the price-fixing pill by the phrase 'to insure that labor costs shall be at least partially covered' does not alter the economic fact...
...club has recently received word that it was awarded third place in the annual Loening Intercollegiate Flying Club contest, having lost by a narrow margin to the clubs from William and Mary College and the University of Michigan. Strenuous efforts will be made during the year to regain the Loening trophy, which Harvard has frequently held in the past...
...that another decrease is not advisable. The rise in prices generally has done something to place the present charges at a fitting level, or at the least on a level more nearly comparable with the sums charged by other landlords. The privileges of House membership, too, justify a certain margin of increase over the rent of an ordinary boarding house room. But the price of rooms is unquestionably a weight on many a mind; no change at present is possible, but the University should weigh carefully the economic needs of the students before arranging a rent scale for the next...
...Large Ellery Walter was jerked from contemplating a beautiful sunrise by a sickening sputter in the motor. Realizing the ship was out of gasoline, the pilot tugged frantically at the fuel pump, got a dying burst of power which enabled him to clear some trees by a breath-taking margin, land in a cornfield. When Reporter Walter got his breath back he asked how the fuel could be exhausted just after leaving an airport where barrels of it were available. The pilot, who had not shaved for two weeks, stolidly replied...