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...cruise up Shepard street and the planting of the red lantern--later much multiplied by permission or poetic license--must have been somewhat in the nature of discovery number two, and that the state of the mob's psychology in the middle of the quadrangle must have been much akin to that of the CRIMSON reporter who found himself crossing the Radcliffe Yard not long ago and emerged on the other side with gratifying editorial comments on the subject of how times do change. But we trust that, as the dinner gong and the clapper, like...
...Stevens '35 and H. J. Young '35; First base--J. E. Hollis '35 and P. G. Vitagliano '35; Second base--H. F. Gillette '35, C. P. Kostarelos '35 and W. F. LeRoy '35; Third base--W. C. Crawford '35 and P. L. Hollins '35; Short stop--A. J. Akin '35 and G. F. McInnes '35; Outfielders--E. A. Crane '35, R. M. Knowles...
News of Ivar Kreuger's death was withheld by the Paris police until after the stockmarkets of the world had closed for the weekend. When it reached Sweden it caused something akin to panic. In London a "high Swedish authority" received a representative of the Times with a sad face. "Poor Kreuger," he said. "Creditors were closing...
...shipmasters who have viewed with articulate alarm the "cruises to nowhere" sponsored by foreign lines, last week viewed with something akin to horror a new policy of Cunard Steamship Co. Cunard passengers would not be carried to "nowhere," but they would be carried elsewhere for hardly any cash fare at all.* Under an arrangement with Morris Plan Corp. of America, industrial moneylenders, Cunard inaugurated a system of installment plan transportation that would enable the wanderlusty to go to Europe for as little as $34 down...
...Corruption of public trust in high places, acts akin to treason and affecting the entire nation, cannot be tolerated or condoned. It appears conceded as a fact established during several thousand years, and not now to be philosophized away, that the fabric of justice cannot endure if mercy be permitted to set aside the penalties meted out in our gravest criminal cases by our highest law tribunal. . . . Parole issuance would be unjustifiable and incompatible with the welfare of society...