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Once again the conservative element in Harvard rose to the surface in an overwhelming majority to vote in the CRIMSON-Herald Tribune poll against the bogey of currency inflation $47-68 with 15 others feeling the issue was too obvious to vote...
...dentist drill rasping through dentine in seeming horrible search for the nerve. No lean scholar is Dr. LeRoy L. Hartman of Columbia's dental school, yet from his laboratory he has come forth with a discovery that entailed twenty years of research. As a consequence, the dental bogey man, pain, is now gone, and dentists everywhere are polishing tools for emergence out of the depression. Dr. Hartman has developed a chemical which, applied to the tooth, almost instantly kills its entire capacity for feeling. It leaves no after-effects...
...Hoover's appearance in San Jose superior court challenges the attention of the whole nation, and particularly those who look after other people's money. If the guardians of Stanford's funds are worried by the bogey of inflation, Harvard's trustees should sit up and take notice. For all save the government's hirelings will now admit that serious inflation looms larger than at any time since the administration took the helm...
...Italo-Ethiopian War spectre looked like the rosiest kind of good news to the businessmen of Japan last week. As the War bogey rose bigger & blacker in Europe, traders on the floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange hugged themselves with joy, deliriously bought & bought. One day transactions reached an all-time high: 1,166,000 shares. Next day Tokyo trading went through this roof to 1,183,000 shares. At week's end practically every stock on the list had risen from...
...bogey man flickered until last week through the shuttered bordellos of Havana, the rich red valleys of inland Cuba, the old Spanish fortresses of the coast. He had guns and money and followers, among them a plump, blonde, temperish Cuban-Irish trollop named Ziomara O'Halloran. He was wanted badly by Army Chief of Staff Batista, with whom he had a deadly personal feud. For the record, however, Batista wanted him for three crimes: 1) the shooting of a treacherous colleague, 2) the kidnapping of a rich Cuban idler for the fabulous ransom of $300,000, and 3) engineering...