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...breakfasts; six destitute children shivering in an unheated room, waiting for the moment when their mother lighted a brief wood fire and cooked their one meal of corn bread; a mother and eight children living in one room in the house of a friend; a nine-year-old boy, stricken last year with spinal meningitis, without underwear, clothed only in a cotton blouse, a pair of pants; a mother recovering from childbirth, still confined to her bed, living on black coffee and cereal...
...Hundreds of thousands were homeless. They huddled under tents or in temporary shacks in the snow-covered fields, or in the ruins of their homes, shivering with terror and with cold. The stricken area (same latitude as New York City) suffered its worst cold snap of the winter, with temperatures as low as 22° below zero...
Last week in dire distress again were Columbus, Youngstown, Lima, Cleveland, most of the urban centres. Toledo shut its poverty-stricken schools, sent 40,000 children home, wondered how it would care for 5,913 unemployed persons and their dependents besides. In Cleveland, 60,000 people dependent on direct relief saw little chance of getting it. Starvation, sickness were spectres at the Thanksgiving feast...
...from continuing the practice of law in State courts. But almost automatically a record of the proceedings and Judge Knox's opinion would go to the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. If disbarred by the Appellate Division the name of Louis Levy would also be stricken from the list of lawyers eligible to practice law in all New York State courts. Day after Judge Knox's decision, the law firm of Stanchfield & Levy was dissolved...
Robert N. White '41, reliable distance swimmer on Coach Hal Ulon's tank squad, was stricken with appendicitis and operated on last Monday. He is recovering in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and is expected to be ready for intercollegiate competition after Christmas...