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...view of all these facts, how can Harvard University obtain, or even have the gall to ask, leave to raise its rents? Can it be that Harvard-already one of the most expensive schools in the country-is trying to build up its reputation as a rich man's college and thus eliminate the average discharged G. I. who can't afford the luxury of a $75 a month suite? My roommate is far more eloquent on the subject than am I, but unfortunately I cannot quote him in writing for possible publication except in essence when his remarks translate...
Hope & Fear. Through gall and goad, the ricksha man has clung to his calling. Hong owners exploit him ("They are blackhearted," he complains-in Shanghai, before last week's strike, they upped their daily rentals from 60? to $2.60), moneylenders gouge him, racketeers batten on him. Yet, in 1918 in Shanghai, he took up bamboo sticks and iron bars to destroy the alien trolleys that menaced his means of meager livelihood-which, after all, is better than that of millions of his fellows...
Ottawa's gain was Toronto's gall. Officials of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum cried loudly that they had asked for the gown, hence should exhibit it. For five and a half years the two cities wrangled over the dress...
...Marcel Petiot's 63 murders did not impress the atrocity-hardened French. But they were impressed by his agile defense and sheer gall last week in a trial in which his condemnation had seemed certain. Ceiling-high rows of victims' valises (containing 97 petticoats, 57 pairs of socks, and 97 shirts) failed to shake Petiot. Nor was he perturbed during the court's visit to his fashionable Paris home and ex-slaughter house, where they found a strange conglomeration of expensive Louis XVI furniture, human bones, and 600 volumes of murder mysteries...
Died. General Plutarco Elias Calles, 68, Mexico's President from 1924 to 1928 and El Jefe (the boss) for many years before & after; after a gall-bladder operation; in Mexico City. The onetime schoolteacher and storekeeper gained prominence in the 1911 revolution against Porfirio Diaz, thereafter dominated Mexican politics until banished in 1936 by Lazaro Cárdenas, his former protege. Calles improved education and labor laws, inveighed loudly against one-man rule yet practiced it, continually flailed the Catholic Church, was labeled "hard but just" by U.S. Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow...