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...rehabilitating the Depression-blasted regions of South Wales, Northern England and the Scottish Clydebank. "While most parts of the country now have a feeling of hope and confidence," said Chancellor Chamberlain, ''there remains in the depressed areas an atmosphere of stagnation and listlessness which arises from a chronic condition of poverty and privation...
...more after election of the Chamber, to dissolve it without the consent of the Senate; 3) empower the Government to punish strikes within the career ranks of French civil servants by dismissal; 4) provide that in case the Chamber fails to pass the new budget by Jan. 1, a chronic failure in France, the Government may carry on for three months under an automatic extension of the old budget...
Caesar was deaf in his left ear. George III was insane. The Kaiser has a shriveled arm. Andrew Jackson had tuberculosis. Abraham Lincoln suffered from chronic constipation. None of these statements is offensive to U. S. citizens. But when John Gay mentioned the infirmity of a living President of the U. S., angry booing broke loose in the Waukesha hall. A quartet struck up a campaign song, thereby temporarily restoring order. Then Nominee Chapple rose and spoke...
Therein lies the prime reason for a chronic warfare between Press and Radio, which for eight months has been held within bounds only by an armed truce...
...discuss with officials of other colleges the chronic ills of higher education, President Conant and Dean Murdock will leave Friday for a two-day conference at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. Laundries, student employment, parking, and student organizations are typical of the matters broached informally behind closed doors. The press is allowed no access to these meetings, at which ideas are exchanged in an unofficial manner...