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Ignoring Administration criticism, the Ways & Means Committee favorably reported the Garner measure by a strict party vote. All Democrats found themselves bound to support the bill after a stormy party caucus had ratified it (123-to-18). Mayor Murphy sped to Washington with the resolutions adopted at the Detroit conference as the final impetus to put through the House this first piece of wholesale Federal relief...
...past, discussed the new Cabinet and the current Japanese crisis in terms of the 31-year-old Emperor's career, recalled that he has always been in his quiet way a precedent smasher and that the first major precedent he smashed was to marry for love outside the strict circle of Japan's Five Eligible Families...
...Yale race. Ordinarily this includes nearly the entire final examination period as well as a week of vacation time. This year, thanks to the provision of a regular study hall it will be possible to make a serious attempt to study, but with rowing twice a day, strict training rules, and the inevitable atmosphere of sociability and intellectual relaxation it is practically impossible to realize this ideal. Although a survey has shown that the marks of those at Red Top do not generally go down at finals, they are, nevertheless, prevented from doing their best work. The atmosphere is such...
...bodies of 10-year-old lads plunging into a blue lake. My nearest neighbors, a mile away, have sent gendarmes and I am hailed before a shocked justice of the peace who places an eternal interdiction on such obscene practice. Henceforth our boys "must at all times wear the strict minimum of clothing required by decency...
...pool's sponsor usually invites only his richest friends to form a syndicate. Each shares in the profits (or losses) in proportion to his subscription. Each usually makes a cash deposit for the pool manager to use as margin in his trading operations. Each is pledged to strict secrecy. With dictatorial powers, the pool manager begins accumulating stock, buying a little more each day than he sells. Stock is dumped if the price rises noticeably. When the manager has the stock he wants, publicity is shot out, bullish rumors about the company appear, the stock is "tipped...