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...seek an end to the threatened loss of homes and productive capacity now faced by hundreds of thousands of American farm families," President Roosevelt told Congress last week when he sent to the Capitol for speedy enactment his bill for refinancing agricultural mortgages. His land-leasing -domestic - allotment-cotton pool measure now in the Senate's hands is designed to raise commodity prices and thus put cash into the farm industry from the bottom by direct subsidies (see p. 18). His mortgage bill is meant to ease the debt load pressing down on the farm from...
Died. Frank Theodore Hulswit, 57, onetime utilities tycoon; when he fell/jumped from his apartment on the fifth floor of Manhattan's Hotel Astor. President of United Light & Power Co. since 1910, he resigned, lost a reputed $10,000,000 when his New York Curb Exchange bull pool in the company's stock collapsed in 1926. Next year he came back as president of American Commonwealths Power Corp., was elected a director of United Light & Power...
...attempt to reproduce on paper the sound of a waterfall (TIME, March 20) recalls to my mind a told-as-true account, which appeared in the Boys' Own Paper during, I think, 1920. of a scientist who spent some weeks, or months, chucking big stones into a deep pool, then listening carefully. At length he gave the world the following plausible and quite delightful word, as representing accurately the complete sound caused by the sudden entry from above of a large stone into a deep pool...
...Class Officers and escorted to the platform, where he will be introduced by Shaun Kelly, Jr. '36, class president. The President's speech will be followed by short talks from Kelly, F. R. Moseley, Jr. '36, and R. S. Playfair '36, secretary-treasurer. Cups for the ping pong and pool tournaments will be awarded by Kelly...
...Stowell '34 scored Harvard's only points in the National Intercollegiate Swimming Association Championship at the Yale exhibition pool in New Haven on Saturday evening...