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...Department will also retain the use of the Rogers Building for drill purposes, in conjunction with the Harvard Dramatic Club. Rumors that the University is contemplating the purchase of the Rogers Building from the City of Cambridge, to which it was given several years ago in return for another plot of land could not be confirmed...
...Independence means self-dependence. . . . Great numbers of people have made the stimulating discovery that they can work for themselves. . . . The land! That is where our roots are. . . . No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. With one foot in industry and another foot in the land, human society is firmly balanced against most economic uncertainties. . . . Groups of employed men could rent farms for small sums and operate them on the cooperative plan [or] with several unemployed families. . . . The machine [and] the land . . . belong together; they cannot live apart; they must...
...with Sari Maritza, an actress who reached Hollywood before the picture reached Manhattan, in the leading role. Monte Carlo Madness, as anyone who has ever seen a cinema about Monte Carlo should guess, is no glum study of dementia praecox. The legend from which the plot was derived concerns the captain of a destroyer who squandered his payroll at the Casino gaming tables and threatened to shell the town if the money was not returned. When he got it back, he paid his crew and blew out his brains, but Monte Carlo Madness is a less sordid variation...
...northeast bank. A Washingtonian, wife of the Scripps-Howard editor of the Washington Daily News, she has seen great political and social lions grow from little cubs. The results of her bright-eyed observation she sets down in an excited, exciting style. With its high-pressure people, its journalistic plot, her rather amateurish novel somehow manages to be one of the most characteristically U. S. productions of the year...
...subscriber will hereafter receive: 1) the Bureau's weekly pamphlets interpreting "current trends of government action" as they affect the business of the individual subscriber; 2) David Lawrence's Weekly, a pamphlet written by Publisher Lawrence who "will penetrate the maze of activities of government . . . plot the trends of legislative action and politics as they affect the business structure of the country . . . take you behind the scenes in Washington"; 3) service of obtaining promptly copies of Government documents, statistics, legal decisions etc., etc.; 4) the U. S. Daily unchanged. Publisher Lawrence explains that only new subscribers will...