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...course Dr. Wirt may have thought it up by himself, but there is a fairly familiar odor of Ham and Fish about it all. The doctor is the head of public school system in Gary, Indiana, one of the larger fiefs in the domain of the United States Steel Corporation, named in honor of the late lord of that house. Judge Gary's ghost, outraged at what the Code Age has done to his life work, must be haunting the purlieus of Gary nightly and scaring the good doctor to death...
...clearance -a very small drop in a billion-dollar bucket. The State has authorized the setting up of a Municipal Housing Authority and 5,000 CWA workers in an exhaustive survey spent the winter slumming. No plans have yet been adopted. The Housing Authority has the power of eminent domain but in Manhattan courts fat awards in condemnation proceedings are the rule. Vast areas of the slums are held by small real estate speculators, many of them onetime slumdwellers who have made a little money. Langdon W. Post, able young tenement house commissioner and chairman of the Housing Authority, last...
...broken fire doors. To those who know him by sight, the tall, straight-backed figure, with solemn expression, steely-gray hair, and amazing height of starched white collar, has seemed a character out of Harvard's past. Like his ancestor, the Puritan governor, Arthur Endicott has ruled his domain with an iron hand little softened by words of tact. The very air of an incongruously well-appointed Lehman Hall, has been chilled and rarified by a spirit of strict New England economy...
...peril--who would defend it? Launcelot came forward in the venerable person of George Saintsbury, to champion the cause of the first and fairest of the immortal trio, Wine, Woman, and Song. The victory went to the good cause, and Mr. Pussyfoot retired ignominiously to his American domain, there to reign supreme for 14 years. When finally his oppressive rule galled too much, and his subjects rose in wrath and expelled him, what more fitting than that Excalibur should be exhibited at the victory celebration...
...everyone was as pleased with the new Radio Playhouse as were CBS officials and their first night guests. Manhattan theatre folk regarded it as an invasion of their domain, denounced the policy of free admission as unfair competition. Indignant theatre managers named a committee to protest...