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Compared with the record of the Herter Administration, Murphy's criticisms appear both meager and ill-founded. Herter has been able to command the support of his party and to direct legislative progress. He deserves election in order to continue his program for an additional term...
...week's end, before the Hoppegarten meeting was over, even East zone bettors had taken their meager supply of marks to the betting booths of West Berlin's Mariendorf trotting track. For a true horseplayer, this was a terrible comedown...
...advice of the Winthrop superintendent, Zuch reported the beating to the Cambridge police, but could give them no leads other than a meager description of one youth. "The attack happened so fast I hardly thought of a thing," he said...
...fourth professionally trained librarian to get the profession's top job-and the scrambled heritage that goes with it. Established by Congress in 1800, the library could at first muster only 1,000 volumes, tucked away for congressional reference in a room of the old Capitol. Even this meager collection was virtually wiped out when the British put Washington to the torch during the War of 1812. Only ex-President Thomas Jefferson's offer of his 6,000 volumes in 1814 kept the idea of a national library from expiring; even so, successive Congresses were reluctant to increase...
...main reasons for last winter's price boost, according to FTC, was the inaccurate forecast for Brazil's 1954-5 5 crop. A year ago, a biting frost hit Brazil's second biggest producing area in Parana, damaging nearly 250 million trees. With forecasts of a meager 13 million-bag crop, some 4,000,000 bags less than expected, a wild price spiral for coffee futures got under way. Actually, says FTC, the frost damage was relatively minor. Brazil's 1954-55 crop was less than 1,000,000 bags (8%) below the 1953 levels...