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...Eighteen National Scholarships, totaling $12,400, have been awarded for the present academic year to first year students at the Graduates School of Business Administration, the University announced today. The scholarships, recipients and their home towns are as follows...
...usin' for' a flagship. We had three other cruisers with us. Just like at Jutland, he was goin' ahead, scoutin' the enemy. 'Two Italian battleships, sir," I says. 'I can count, you bloody fool.' he says. Shortly was more Eyeties. 'Eighteen cruisers, sir.' I says. 'Dammit, man, I'm not blind,' he says. So then I decided I'd better hold my jaw, and shortly when there was more Eyeties I didn't say a word. 'How many of their destroyers off there...
...Eighteen months more was just a time limit so that the Army would not be unduly rushed in discharging men 1) before they had finished jobs in hand, 2) before they could be adequately replaced, or 3) in such numbers that units would be broken up. Actually the War Department intended to turn them out as fast as it could after their first twelve months. It hoped to have almost 200,000 men back home by Christmas, barring war or more imminent threat...
...remedy this situation; the Geyser Anti-Poll Tax bill, lies buried in the House judiciary committee, and will not be proposed for consideration before the House. The principal objective of National Anti-Poll Tax Week is to blast this bill out of the committee by getting two hundred and eighteen signatures of congressmen on a discharge petition, the number of signatures necessary to bring the bill before the House. If the campaign is successful, and the "right to vote" becomes more than an idle phrase to ten million southern citizens, we can then perhaps do a little more constructive thinking...
...national defense, which exempted men engaged in these from military service above certain specified age limits. In this group were included architects, professors, school teachers, engineers, scientists, and medical men, whether students or practicing doctors, who were left free to train the young men coming along. In the past eighteen months this list has been drastically reduced and age limits have been raised, yet the urgent need for physicists and chemists has eased restrictions on them rather than tightened them...