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...House Cleaning . . . Two months ago, Harry Truman asked Congress to transfer RFC to the Commerce Department, thus giving it family status. Last week the Senate voted an emphatic "no." Principal reason: a Senate investigating committee had been digging into RFC's past, was beginning to wonder whether RFC's lending machinery shouldn't be shut off altogether. What RFC needed, said Illinois' Paul Douglas (who had stoutly championed all the other presidential reorganization plans) was "not so much a transfer as a thorough house cleaning...
...rewrite man. As a vacation fillin, he started to write "In Our Town," which had been merely a collection of amusing miscellany. Selby filled in so vigorously that he kept the column, and transformed it. When a Camden commuter complained about having to pay an extra 3? for a transfer on Philadelphia's transit system Selby investigated. He found, to the transit company's amazement, that its cashiers were systematically overcharging everyone. When other readers complained about tenement "fire traps," Selby checked into the city ordinances, and soon landlords of 113 buildings were hauled up for violations. From...
...hardly maintain his standing in the community, or in the local churches"). But Lewis shows that Grant himself was no habitual drunkard. Married after the Mexican War to Julia Dent, a Missouri plantation belle and the love of his life, Sam Grant was soon separated from her by Army transfer to the gold-struck Pacific Coast. There, among raging prices and get-rich-quick schemes, he saw his hopes of sending for his wife and children dwindle as one spare-time business venture after another flopped. Result: Grant took to drink, in time resigned* his captaincy in the ill-paid...
...compilation of the lectures of 18 professor and university officials at an evening course given by the Radcliffe Graduate School this fall. One of its faults is that few of the lectures have been edited sufficiently to make a successful transfer from the oral to the written form...
Wilde, who succeeds Bob Matson, is a transfer student from Holy Cross. This season he shot in the mid 70's and played in the number two position...