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Sever 11 and English A4 gleam with an extra ray of sunshine this afternoon. Martyn Green is coming to talk at 2 o'clock to the class and to all others who would like to be there...
Three years ago when the Social Security Act was still just an eleemosynary gleam in Franklin Roosevelt's eye, Congress, which got its early training in industrial legislation working on the railroads, passed a pension law for the 1,500,000 railroad employes of the U. S. In May 1935 the Supreme Court threw out that first Railway Pension Act along with NRA. Before the summer was out Congress tried again. The District of Columbia Supreme Court found the second law unconstitutional. So although the Social Security Act has been debated, passed and in force for a year, there...
...little over 22,000 feet . . . and just when I am beginning to wonder how much less oxygen I can get along without, there is the sun! From the strangely low angle it seems to pop up at us. The chromium plated struts gleam and twinkle, and the vivid orange wings take on new light...
With a German-born population of 11,366 and twice as many German-speaking homes, Chicago has long been one of the world's first German cities. The pride of Chicago's Germans is nourished not only by the statues of Goethe, Schiller and von Humboldt that gleam in the city parks but by their living countrymen prominent in the city's affairs. Chicago last week honored one of these, blue-eyed, baldish Carl Bismarck Roden, for 50 years an employe of the great Chicago Public Library and for 18 years its Chief Librarian...
...been noticing a gleam in the Old Woman's eyes for some time," he confided. "She watches me as I shave, as I light my pipe, as I tie my tie; she hangs around me all the time and keeps glancing into her compact mirror, starting at her profile on the side that doesn't show the huge wen on her nose, patting the stringy mass of gray hair that is left on the top of her head. Poor thing! She seems worried every time I go out. As a matter of fact she's taken to hiding my cane...