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...privacy in his home life. Conant had made a rule requiring himself to eat at home with his wife at least twice a week. The Conants also take two vacations a year. These are usually connected with some aspect of University business, but the president manages to slip in some fishing or other exercise between lectures...
When Brannan got down to facts & figures on shortages, it was the committee's turn to get mad. The Secretary, who had once said that the slight amount of grain that had vanished "could almost slip through cracks in the floor," revealed that in the past six years, no fewer than 972 shortages had been uncovered. Most of them (841) concerned Government grain stored on farms and involved a loss of $1,000,000, half of which has been recovered. The rest occurred in commercial warehouses, and involved much more. On such disappearances, said Brannan, the Government...
Against this new Popular Front, Premier de Gasperi's once solid anti-Communist vote is split asunder (TIME, April 21). With the Republicans-Demochristians presenting one ticket and the monarchist-fascists another, the Reds hope to slip through the weakened defenses and take the Eternal City...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 16-In a despard attempt to slip under tomorrow's deadline for the 25-player limit the Mt. Auburn Clowns last night sent 23 1/2 players to the Wingashee Beach-combers of the Coast League in return for veteran 92-year-old manger Cornelius "Connie" Mack-U, who has come out of retirement for today's titanic tiff with D. C. D. Rogers Hahnsby's Rampaging Red-Eds. With only nine players left on his squad, Mack-U still voiced confidence last night. "We'll be like the old Gag-House Gang," he gurgled gleefully, "with such...
...slip about to turn into a full-fledged recession? Some businessmen, such as Montgomery Ward's gloomy Sewell Avery, thought that it would. But the majority did not think so, especially since the Government is expected to relax credit restrictions, which are one of the big curbs on sales. Actually, after the frenzied boom last year, business was getting back to a merely normal boom. Many businessmen who had been allocating their production had a hard time realizing that they had to work to sell goods again...