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...thank God far away from the flood and on the highest point of the city. For five days we were in total darkness except for candles. My son was on the last train coming in to Columbus and looking back saw the bridge break in two pieces and drift away. We saw plenty of misery and people went crazy in the streets. I could write a book of all the tragedies. I go to the R. C. A. Building to see many radio programs, so I am a judge of fine music, and have always seen only the best...
...Treasury. Since then he has returned to his chair at the Harvard Business School, has been retained as foreign exchange and trade adviser to General Motors Export Co. and has attempted to create "an aroused and organized public opinion," which he said was the only "defense from a drift into unrestrained inflation." Most conservative businessmen regarded him as their best friend and stoutest ally. Last week they were shocked and startled when Professor Sprague turned around and let fly at them because they "were not ready to take risks...
...only half in earnest, at once passionately sought for and scornfully east aside. In "Strange Interlude" there are poetic outbursts from Nina identifying God with herself as an all-compassionate Mother, and men as flashes in the electrical display of God. In "Mourning Becomes Electra" the dramatist seemed to drift into a completely mechanistic attitude, at least to give expression to such a concept. "Days Without End" is indeed a modern miracle play, if we consider this undercurrent attitude even in its barest outline...
...Foot Guard was called off. Danbury bakers began charging 25? a loaf for bread. There was no milk in New Haven for two days. A Wilton mother bore her baby in front of an open fireplace and by candle-light after a doctor had dug through a 18-ft. drift to her door. Six funerals were postponed in Bridgeport, where banks and stores closed...
Death and injury came in curious ways. A New Jersey fireman, knocked into a drift by a fire hose, lay there unconscious until his fellows discovered him, a solid block of ice. A Long Islander tried to get home, found he could not make it, broke a window to find shelter in a vacant house, gashed his arms and bled to death. Three Jerseymen were marooned all night in their car near Harmony. Next morning they set out for help. One fell exhausted. When his companions returned with help he was frozen stiff. The Long Island...