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...rid NRA of some of its worst body squeaks, President Roosevelt last week authorized General Johnson to strike out the price fixing and trade practice provisions in the codes of service industries. Next day General Johnson promptly performed the permitted operation on seven codes: 1) cleaning & dyeing; 2) automobile storage and parking; 3) barbers: 4) bowling and billiards; 5) shoe rebuilding; 6) advertising display installations: 7) advertising distribution. This stripped these codes to the bare bone of wage, hour, child labor, and collective bargaining clauses which service industries must still obey. Local groups may write prices back into their local...
...Textbook Loan Library, which lends textbooks to needy students for a nominal sum, will be directed by G. Hinckley Porter '35. The theory behind this drive is that people will be so glad to get rid of their books immediately after taking their examinations that they will gladly present them to the Library representative at the examination place. Books are greatly needed to replenish the waning supply now available at Phillips Brooks, House, since the demand for them has been increasing annually...
...better get rid of Eddie Morris. He certainly raised a laugh from the crowd on Saturday when he announced the results of the 3200-metre run. Ruby Rob Playfair took the event and Charlie Woodard followed him into the finish...
...little egg-shaped Negro with a small, sharp, smiling face went the rounds of Manhattan bankers. For two weeks Haiti's President Stenio Vincent tried to get a refunding loan of $11,000,000 so that he could pay off Haiti's present U. S. bondholders and rid his little republic of the U. S.'s watchdog, Sidney De La Rue. Financial Adviser-General Receiver of Haitian Customs. But the bankers wanted De La Rue on the spot to protect the refunding loan too. President Vincent had gotten exactly nowhere last week when he left Manhattan...
Nevertheless, King Carol last week drew a ring of loyal troops around his palace. Queen Mother Marie asked him, please, to get rid of Lupescu and remarry his divorced wife Helen. The Cabinet formally asked him to send Lupescu away. Lupescu herself, badly frightened, offered to leave Rumania, if that was all his enemies wanted. But Carol assured her confidently that things were not so bad as that. On that one point he was every inch a king: he decreed that indispensable Mile Lupescu must...