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...exile, Tugwell first took a flyer in the sugar business. His next job was the chairmanship of Fiorello LaGuardia's New York City Planning Commission. In this job, he had time to reflect on two things: 1 ) the fact that his more discreet friend, Adolph A. Berle Jr., whose economics are even less laissez-fairist than his, nevertheless managed to be an eminently respectable Assistant Secretary of State; 2) the long-range problem of integrating municipal spending and taxing with Federal fiscal policy...
...Frustrated Flyer Donald Blood, 14, was let off with one-year probation; now staying close to home, he will start high school this fall. His buddy Benny Byrne, 15, is staying indeterminately in a correctional institution, pending release for good behavior. Reason: he previously snitched a camera lens and some radio parts, thinking they would come in handy when he got to be a war aviator...
...some 12,500 items in its midsummer sale "flyer" catalogue, Sears, Roebuck & Co. dropped prices an average 11.2% under its January spring & summer catalogue...
Asking for an immediate expression of peace desires by Harvard students, the Student Union circular pointed to the spread of the war and declared that the President is "now slipping into the groove Wilson followed in 1917." The attached A.S.U. flyer also hit Roosevelt's policy, saying that "America is so close to war that if you listen hard, you can hear the sound of marching feet...
...Senator Henry B. Payne. She gave $2,250,000 for Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Western Reserve University. Her philanthropy extends from backwoods Kentucky, where she financed a log-cabin nursery centre, to Palm Beach, Fla., where she contributes heavily to charity. She once took a flyer at improving the lot of chorus girls...