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From the first, Housing Administrator Moffett met obstacles. The campaign mapped out for him called for: 1) modernization of 13,000,000 buildings in the U. S. ; 2) stimulation of a new building boom. Since both aims were to be accomplished without direct use of govern ment money, Mr. Moffett calculated that the Housing Administration would not need to hire more than 500 employes. On some days during the past month as many as 6,000 jobhunters haunted his offices. Politicians pulled wires on every side. By last week he finally had 250 carefully chosen employes, including his assistant. Albert...
...already know. Confining itself chiefly to a de scription of how the company operates, it did reveal that dividends of from 20% to 50% were paid between 1910 and 1930. In 1930-32 Hudson's Bay Co. lost money, but last year, on a total Canadian invest ment of $27,337,000, it showed a profit...
Hudson's Bay Co. by no means gave up fur trading when it entered the depart ment store field. In 1931-32 its fur catch was almost 4,500,000 pelts worth $10,000,000. It maintains 224 fur trading posts, has lately been developing silver fox farms, owns a large block of stock in the Montreal trading subsidiary of Revillon, Inc., famed Paris and Manhattan furrier...
General Johnson: Stripped of shadowy verbiage, this means that the choice of the American people is between Fascism and Communism, neither of which can be espoused by any one who believes in our democratic institutions of self-govern-ment; nor can any public official who has taken an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States adopt or officially advocate such a program...
...greatest of dancers. For months at a time he speaks no word. He still hears the echo of War guns. His dead, dumb eyes see soldiers dying around him. Sixteen years have passed since Vaslav Nijinsky danced in the U. S. But this winter the re-enact- ment of many of Nijinsky's great roles by the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe has aroused fresh talk of his genius (TIME, Jan. i). Next week will be published the story of Nijinsky's life, written by his wife.* Romola de Pulszky was a 17-year-old Hungarian schoolgirl when...