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California's Senate passed and sent to the friendly Assembly a bill authorizing a California Agricultural Exchange, with aid from U. S. credit agencies (RFC, FHA, REA, etc.) to establish "balanced communities" for California reliefers. The Exchange would function as a cooperative, growing crops on common land, processing it in communal factories, selling the produce to its members and in the market. The State's investment would be around $300 for every reliefer shifted from public rolls to cooperative balance...
...policy as I have described. We therefore welcome the cooperation of any country, whatever may be its internal system of government, not in aggression, but in resistance to aggression. . . . We cannot live forever in an atmosphere of surprise and alarm from which Europe has suffered in recent months. The common business of life cannot be carried on in a state of uncertainty...
...Public Health Service, who reported that goldfish might contain tapeworms which, lodging in the intestinal tract, would give swallowers anemia. Nevertheless, collegiate swallowing continued.* Gordon ("Doc") Southworth, of Massachusetts' Middlesex University's School of Veterinary Medicine, stationed himself beside Soldiers Monument on Waltham Common with a pail of goldfish, in 14 minutes swallowed 67. At University of Missouri Marie Hansen became the first co-ed to swallow a goldfish. Champion at week's end: Clark University's Joseph Deliberato-89 fish...
...Consultation Hours held in tutor's Common Room...
Soviet Russia was flattered and amused that Britain was courting her. Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky even had lunch at the London house of Lady Astor, hostess of the famed appeasement-favoring Cliveden Set. But Russia let it be known that since Russia and Germany have no common borders, the Soviet signature was useless without Poland's, and suggested an anti-Nazi conference. This was apparently too near to definite action for the ever-cautious British. The realistic French Quai d'Orsay looked upon the proposed British declaration as a typical instance of Anglo-Saxon diplomatic piety. French Foreign...