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...special inducement for private capital to enter this wide new rental market is needed-in huge chunks supplied promptly by big corporations from dormant surpluses instead of in pooled driblets as suggested by President Roosevelt-it could be provided in a variety of ways: by offering tax-free securities of local housing authorities (as at Princeton), now available in 37 States; by insuring mortgages on the properties through FHA with a limited return on the equity; by offering some degree of Federal tax exemption to private capital entering the field...
...feeling against Harvard can be alleviated on a thousand different fronts. Harvards has all the instruments to do it, and yet it lies dormant...
Committed to drive the Leftist Army out of the Ebro River salient won in late July, Rightist troops last week made their seventh attempt in ten weeks. By week's end the latest drive had petered out. On the long dormant front near Aranjuez, south of Madrid, Rightists felt out the strength of Leftist lines in several short, minor thrusts...
...Student Union is another very live organization. Seldom dormant, this political left wing is constantly agitating, and has a lot of fun scrapping with the newly-formed Young Conservatives, or Young Independents, as they later came to be called. The Student Union sponsors many worth-while talks and debates on various subjects...
...dealer coercion were presently brought against the "big four" in Milwaukee, but the case fizzled when the judge discovered the Department of Justice trying to arrange a consent decree on the side (TIME, Nov. 22, et seq.). Since then this particular phase of the tripartite dealer investigation has lain dormant. Last week, however, the other two simultaneously came to a climax in Detroit at the annual convention...