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Last week for the first time in the dark & stormy history of East Texas oil fields a State body, controlling production, and a Federal body controlling interstate shipments, sat down in a joint effort to stop the flagrant traffic in illegal oil. It took a raging gasoline price war to bring this logical event about (TIME...
...seemed about to break into fresh fireworks. Station WOR (Macy's and Bambergers department stores) proposed to fill the air with an hour's news every day. News on the Air, For a time Radio helped itself to the columns of newspapers. When the Press protested such flagrant thieving, an arrangement was made whereby Radio was supplied with reports from Associated Press, United Press and International News Service, to be broadcast with full credit. The front remained reasonably quiet until election night...
...ordinary university proctor walked into some University of Chicago examination rooms one day last week his first impulse would have been to cry "Un-fair!", to throw every student out for flagrant cheating. Row on row sat students with question sheets before them. But instead of scratching their heads and staring desperately out windows nearly every one was busily thumbing through textbooks and lecture notes...
...results of operations of the company during the past few years have been unsatisfactory. For that very reason the board . . . voted to remove Mr. Scott from the position of general manager." As for the unfortunate Reo bank deposits, "the attempt to place the responsibility . . . on Mr. Olds is a flagrant disregard of the facts...
Each morning in your editorial columns appear with harmless regularity bits of innocuous criticism concerning University policy on stale and moot points while standing out in bold relief before your very eyes are all the flagrant flaws against which you refuse to act. It is relative to one of these flaws that I send this communication to you: The Eliot Night Lunch. Students are enticed by convenience of location into this subterranean palace where they are told that by a simple signature most marvelous things are produced. The scheme would be a very commendable one if it were...