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...consumers owe a record $46 billion. The Federal Reserve Board predicted that the figure would reach $50 billion before the end of the year...
...thing there are Communists associated with the new party. But if any of them advocate the overthrow of the government by violence, I hope they get out now." Although, by his own admission, he has known only one Communist personally,* he conceded that "there may be some Communists who owe first allegiance to Moscow rather than to Washington-I don't think it's a majority...
...Cordell Hull, who left the Senate in 1933 to become Secretary of State, was the last elected Tennessee Senator who did not owe his seat to Boss Crump. For one year (1937-38), George Berry, an anti-Crump appointee, served in the Senate, was beaten in the following primary. Stalest Crumpet of all: 77-year-old Kenneth McKellar, a Senator for 31 years...
...quartet drifted out of the hall. The first violinist stood up, walked to the center of the University of California's Wheeler Hall stage, and paused for quiet to make an announcement. "Last night," he said, "one of the greatest artists of quartet music, Robert Maas, died.* We owe him a tremendous debt . . . our next number will be in his memory." Then the four fiddlers of the Griller String Quartet played "Consummatum Est" from Haydn's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross; they played it with such intensity, and with so taut a rein on their emotion...
...area decided that the time had come to move. Small groups in Saskatchewan and British Columbia joined them. They auctioned off their lands and farm equipment to other Mennonites. They advertised for creditors they might have overlooked, checked with the Income Tax Department on back taxes they might still owe. Then they packed...