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...airship flight to the Pole. The money paid for the dirigible America I, in which Explorer Wellman & party collided with a glacier. Two years later America II also got into trouble. Before America II could make another try, Peary reached the Pole afoot and Explorer Wellman lost interest. However, his Arctic experience enabled him to sense, prove, and write a famed report of Dr. Frederick Cook's monumental hoax...
...press conference to Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey who told the disappointed newshawks how female consumers can complain to the NRA about the cost of what they buy and to Miss Mary W. Dewson of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee who told what plans were afoot to make women Democrats out of women Republicans...
Agitations to lengthen Harvard's traditionally short Christmas vacations have been afoot recently, both among the student body and in the Student Council, it was revealed yesterday...
...amount to less than $40,000,000. That much new money would be less than half the amount added to circulation in the week before Christmas, all in the ordinary course of Federal Reserve's operations. So direct inflationary effect would be trifling compared to other measures now afoot...
...committee of students stung by the reproach of your editorial of the fourteenth, has set afoot plans for bringing German films to Harvard. This group, though admitting that the Harvard undergraduate is "tatlos, wenn er denkt," has takes good care that he shall not be "blind, wenn er handelt," by securing the aid of a diligent and experienced patroness, and by investigating carefully the requirements of the undertaking...