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...Lundoen is no piker. He would provide an unemployment, old age, and social insurance for all--at the expense of the national government. He would give a "just compensation" of $10 a week, plus $3 for each dependent to all workers and farmers--some 15,000,000--above eighteen years of age, unemployed through no fault of their own. In case average local wages were higher than $10 a week--and in many communities this would certainly be true-- all unemployed would receive as dole an amount equal to average local wages. Taxation necessary to provide...
...sawing in the doughnut championship race for the last fortnight. Latest reports have Freshman Steele of Vermont slaloming through twenty doughnuts in twelve minutes and thirty-eight seconds. Before that the record was held by Mr. Howe, 1938 of Brown and Mr. Pillsbury of Vermont with marks of eighteen minutes fifty seconds and twenty-nine minutes respectively...
...decision of a divided court, with one court justice dissenting for the first time in eighteen years, the Wilson Club Friday night defeated the Pollock Club in the finals of the 1934-1935 Ames Competition, held at Langdell Hall...
...eighteen years Louis Napoleon Bonaparte had been Emperor of the French. In this short time the country had recovered from a state of revolutionary chaos and was now without question the leading power on the continent of Europe. Twice the Emperor had led the people into war, both times successfully. Meanwhile a legend had grown up around him. He was considered variously as a Mephistopheles, a weakling, a fool, and an iron man. Now, in 1870 the time had arrived to test the legend. Prepared "to the last gaiter button," the famous French army, victors of Sebastopol and Solforino, awaited...
During the eighteen years that Dr. Charles Armstrong, 48, has been in the U. S. Public Health Service he has repeatedly risked his life investigating botulism, influenza, syphilis, spasms following vaccination, milk-borne epidemics...