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Meantime, wanderings from place to place in search of a suitable permanent home ceased when the November 20, 1915 issue was able to run its permanent address as 14 Plympton Street. Negotiations for a building fund and plans had been carried on since 1912, and a mortgage enabled the editors to break ground for their own home in the spring...
...search for extra room space for student veterans was undertaken in anticipation of increasing pressure on existing facilities in the Summer and Fall terms, and as a result of a housing survey made recently by the Straus Hall office. This survey indicated that of the couples who had no children, 58 per cent were willing to pay from $50 to $75 per month for rooms, while of those couples who had two children, 23 per cent would be able to afford over $100 a month for living quarters...
Federal courts had no right to throw out the case of A.L.O.F. Bell of "Mankind United" (a California religious sect), who had sued FBI agents for unlawful search and seizure. The federal courts had dismissed the case on the ground that there was no federal question involved. The Court ruled that it was for the citizen to decide whether his constitutional rights had been violated, not the courts. Except in the case of "insubstantial or frivolous pleas," the federal courts had to listen...
...search nipped the repatriates' careful plans to smuggle home valuables in addition to funds which they had been ordered to turn over to Allied authorities when Japan surrendered. In the knee patches of a child's ski suit, inspectors found a wad of large-denomination U.S. bills. A woman's sewing kit concealed three whopping diamonds. A three-year-old's belt bulged with 21 wristwatches. Shoe heels and toothpaste tubes disgorged a torrent of foreign currency and jewelry...
...Corporal is a graceful, pencil-slim, 1,000-pound rocket, 16 feet long and 12 inches in diameter. Booted along at supersonic speeds by the combustion of liquid hydrocarbon, she aims to search out secrets of the ionosphere (super-stratosphere). The Army announced last fortnight that, on her first try, the Corporal rose 43½ miles into the blue, came down by parachute...