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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems to me that the withdrawal by the publishers of the two Jerome Weidman books, I Can Get It for You Wholesale and What's in It for Me? (because "their principal character, a smart-guy Jew, is enough to rouse anti-Semitic sentiments in a rabbi"-TIME, Dec. 26) ; the withdrawal of Richard Simon's Miniature Photography (because "it commends some German-built cameras"-TIME, Dec. 26) ; and the boycott of the Anne Morrow Lindbergh book, Listen! the Wind! by the New Hyde Park library club (because of Colonel Lindbergh's acceptance of a Nazi decoration...
...amended bill in which the signal thing not amended was the House figure: $725,000,000.* The full Appropriations Committee (Chairman: Senator Glass) promptly approved the subcommittee's handiwork 17-to-7, reported it out to the Senate. There, Senator Adams predicted, "We will probably get the whey beat out of us ... as usually happens when the subcommittee makes an honest effort to economize...
Besides having an "H" name like Messrs. Hopkins and Harrington, Howard Hunter likes to play the horses. He also knows how life is lived on both sides of the social crust, has what it takes to get along with both sides...
...claimed in backing the change that the chain, which is supposed to be closed at 8 o'clock, has generally been left open up to nearly 9 o'clock, thus leading many to get caught when it is shut on time. It was also explained that the days when automobile motors made an undue disturbance have passed and that therefore there are no valid objections left to the change...
With no Radeliffe girls in sight, the Cambridge Student Co-operative Society's dining hall will get its formal opening in the basement of Andover Hall today at 12:30 o'clock when the 180 members sit down with their invited guests...