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With these increased taxes the British budget balanced, with a minuscule surplus left over. But, as has been his fiscal custom, Chancellor Chamberlain had made no provision for paying anything on Britain's debt...
...addition to the regular program the club will sing Harvard songs in accordance with the annual custom. All members of the University will be invited to take part in these songs from the steps of Widener...
Then, instead of following the usual custom of being inaugurated at Government House in Bombay, Lord Linlithgow went on to the capital at New Delhi to go through some even more impressive pageantry before buckling down...
With Green and his fellow-hurdlers out of the G.B.I. meet in the Stadium Saturday, the meet swill be closer by about 20 points. Harvard should still win, but the competition will be much keener than in past years when it has been the custom for the home team to pile up more than a 100 points...
...rural regions of the U. S. the old custom of "listening in" on other people's conversations over party telephone lines still prevails. Last month in Washington the Federal Communications Commission started listening in on The Telephone Company (TIME, March 30). In the past fortnight the Commission's dapper young inquisitor, Samuel Becker, has picked up the following nuggets, most of which in any comprehensive investigation of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. could hardly be rated as more than prime gossip...