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...Memorial Day an ill-tempered Senate celebrated by lashing the Sales Tax movement to its knees. Senator Harrison paraded on the floor the list of 55 Senators vowing to vote Nay. Desperately supporters of the tax bill lay about them right & left, seizing upon various excises to help push the total of the bill nearer the balancing figure, among them taxes on stock & bond transfers, limitations on income tax deductions...
...Bronx, when Officer Pierce Glynn ordered him to move his pushcart, Phil Cohen, cherry peddler, refused. Officer Glynn arrested Peddler Cohen, ordered him to push his cart to the police station. Peddler Cohen flatly refused. Sweating Officer Glynn trudged the pushcart to the police station. Peddler Cohen marching by his side blithely chanting: "Chay-reeeees! fresh chay-reeeees...
...Milwaukee, John Roback, tippler, took off his shoes, pushed his automobile down the street. Interrogated by Officer Tewes, he explained: "I'm in no shape to drive this thing. I thought it would be safer for traffic if I'd push it. I took off my shoes to keep my footsteps from bothering people...
...American was also making news last fortnight far in the North. It announced that its summer service from Boston to Halifax would this year be extended, if mail contracts are forthcoming, to turbulent St. Johns, Newfoundland. Cooperating with Transamerican Airlines Corp. (operating between Cleveland and Chicago), Pan American will push surveys and preliminary research this summer in a drive to span the Atlantic by way of Greenland, Iceland, the Faeroes and Shetland Islands to England and the Continent. Last summer Pilot Parker Cramer was drowned in the Atlantic as he was completing an experimental flight over this route...
...students. The illusion that the Fogg Museum should be the isolated habitat of the Fine Arts Department should be destroyed by bringing that institution more into contact with the University at large. As those responsible sincerely desire to spread knowledge and appreciation of art, they should push this plan to the utmost. By shortsightedly dropping the project, Fogg Museum may justly be charged with doing Harvard a disservice which can be rectified only by the renewal of the offer to loan the pictures...