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Although the University has never been able completely to exterminate the menace of prowlers and suspects in the Houses and the Yard, conditions have been materially improved since last year's campaign urging students to keep their doors locked. Cooperation on the part of the latter has substantially aided the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOSS IN STOLEN GOODS DRASTICALLY REDUCED | 3/10/1936 | See Source »

In the St. Lawrence County, N. Y. jail. Sheriff McCormack, unable to exterminate the jail's hordes of cockroaches, offered convicts 10? bounty per 100 roaches turned in. With nothing else to occupy their spare time, convicts delivered thousands per day.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 11, 1935 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

The magnificence of General Tada's appetite was hinted in one line: "Japan's continental policy aims at the salvation of China's 400,000,000 exploited humans and Japan will exterminate any one obstructing her."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Appetite in Paradise | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

Men Without Names (Paramount). For cinemaddicts who are not yet weary of them, this picture exhibits G-men up to their customary tricks while tracking a gang of embittered bank robbers to a small-town hideaway. Fred MacMurray is the Federal agent who arrives in town pretending to be a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Men Without Names | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

On the subject of utility holding companies nearly everyone had had his say. Franklin Roosevelt had asked for what practically amounted to their abolition. Powermen and investors had wrung their hands in loud anguish. Senator Wheeler had favorably reported the bill. Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council had counseled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Rear Row Voice | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

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