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...suggested; but it is not the only alternative. The Union is probably as far a walk from some of the Yard dormitories as any building in the University. There are buildings in the Yard, or nearer the Square end of the Yard which could be used. What seems to recommend the Union to the Overseers is the cheapness with which it can be converted. I suggest that the University could better afford to build a new set of freshman dining halls than to sacrifice a most valuable possession. Name withheld by request
Caraway of Arkansas, Dill of Washington. Ownership by a judicial nominee of motor, mining, oil, rail, industrial or other stocks did not alarm these Senators, did not make them distrust the nominee's honor. But they would recommend confirmation of no judicial nominee whom they knew owned utility power stock, would presumably make it their business to uncover such ownership in all future nominees...
...item in the Senate bill which President Hoover did not recommend: $60,000 more for upkeep of the Senate Office Building. Prime pleader for that sum was New Hampshire's Senator George Higgins Moses who. as chairman of the Rules Committee, is the building's chief custodian. His explanation: "The building was infested with cockroaches until we found the source of it, down below, and closed it up. They became so lively that some of them were holding debates with the office force and making life unpleasant for Senators. I had to hire extra scrubwomen. . . . Remember, every Senator...
...President of the U.S. has been more interested in child welfare than Herbert Clark Hoover. On a $500,000 anonymous donation he has organized a large commission to survey this field, to recommend improvements. The Children's Bureau in the Department of Labor has his special favor. Last week he was amazed when two well-groomed ladies from Boston walked into his office and partly told him to his 'face that their whole purpose in life was to put his Children's Bureau out of business, to defeat all his elaborate plans for national child welfare...
...sentimentalize the gulf that lies between them. They are, patently, what they are. And in addition Mr. Upham suggests the terrible ennui that lies upon the sophisticates, reading interminably to reach life through the book, while the less fortunate serfdom is possessing it on "Thursday evenings out." I recommend this excellent bit above the others...