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Followed by tail-coated plenipotentiaries, duck-bottomed Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week borrowed a nickel, pressed through the turnstiles into the subterranean maze. Donning a conductor's cap, he posed at the controls of a shiny new train, then settled back with proud satisfaction as it slithered off through the spotless white tunnel which even smelled clean. Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Subway had been opened...
Safe as to the letter of the law but thrown on its own resources as to its spirit, linage-minded A. & S. went to press asking for reader opinions, gave its own: "Since money spent for advertising flows through a maze of taxable channels ... it might well yield the Government larger revenue than if retained as part of a company's taxable profits...
...dramatic roll-call vote the Harvard Student Union last night endorsed material aid to England by a 74 to 71 margin, and adjourned in a maze of parliamentary red-tape...
...York, Russell's cause is still being fought by the Higher Board of Education, but is lost in a maze of technical difficulties. The root of the trouble is that the city council refused to appeal the McGeehan decision ruling out; Russell and the present attorneys have as yet failed to establish their legal right to act for the Board. That group however, recently voted ten to nine to pursue the case...
Investigating the background of the fall of France, a seminar given by Donald C. MacKay, assistant professor of History will hold up the cliches of newspaper correspondents to the light and try and weed out from a maze of facts the answers to the fundamental questions involved in the collapse of a major power in 34 days...