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WASHINGTON--The Senate today struck proposed shackles on the New Deal utility program from the recovery -relief bill on assurance from President Roosevelt that no federal aid will be given to erect public power plants unless and until private firms reject "fair" offers for municipal purchase of their facilities...
Into Dublin's Department of Agriculture Building last week strode a 78-year-old, tall, erect, walrus-mustached Gaelic scholar. There, flanked by Eire Ministers, high court justices and Parliament leaders, this poet, playwright and author, Dr. Douglas Hyde by name, received from Civil Servant Wilfrid Brown formal notification in Gaelic that he had been elected first President of Eire. No vote-counting was necessary for Civil Servant Brown to reach this conclusion, for Dr. Hyde had been chosen by both Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail Party and William T. Cosgrave's Opposition Party...
...fortieth annual dinner of the CRIMSON in the Union last night, over a hundred guests, including former editors and other men intimately interested in the affairs of the University enthusiastically approved a proposition to erect a building for the CRIMSON. Besides H. M. Williams '85, who proposed the plan for a new home, W. R. Thayer '81 spoke on "Recollections of An Old Editor," Dean B. S. Hurlbut '87 on "The CRIMSON and the College," Dr. Endicott Peabody on "An Outsider's View," and R. C. Evarts '13 on "The Undergraduate and His Relation to Better Things...
...morning last week in the old cell block of Sing Sing prison, whose gates had closed behind Richard Whitney, five-time president of the New York Stock Exchange (TIME, March 21). Starting a five-to-ten year sentence for grand larceny, holding his substantial, six-foot-two figure erect and his chin lifted, Mr. Whitney-Prisoner No. 94,835-displayed such extreme fortitude that it seemed at times like a pose. He was assigned to a tiny, damp, malodorous cell whose only plumbing was a bucket and he asked for no favors. But deference, curiosity and admiration were apparent...
...press, 125 strong, trooped into the President's oval office; they found it rigged up, as one reporter murmured sotto voce, like a college course in Economics 2A. At his desk sat the President, jovial as ever. Behind him was an easel stacked with charts. 'Primly erect, like a visiting professor, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau sat at one side, flanked by James Roosevelt, Charles Michelson, Steve Early, Marvin Mclntyre and the usual Secret Service men. First part of the lesson was the reading aloud by the President of a statement prepared for Secretary of the Treasury...