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After four days of nasal argument, a Constitutional Convention in Concord last week voted to cut the House to a maximum of 400, a minimum of 375 members. New Hampshire's citizens will vote on the amendment Nov. 3, 1942. If a two-thirds majority approves, after 1943 New Hampshire's bill for the upkeep of its lawmakers will come down $20,000 a year. But even New Hampshire's politicians did not relish the idea of saving a lot more-at the sacrifice of a lot more jobs...
...scoffed: "Hitler pretends that he has lost less than four men for each mile of the front per day. Any soldier who fought in the last war knows that a hundred casualties a division each day is an absolute minimum, even in trench warfare. With 15 divisions engaged, the minimum would...
...forces outside the continental U.S.: Iceland, 15,000; Philippine Islands, 160,000; Canal Zone and Caribbean bases, 200,000; Hawaii, 200,000; Alaska, 110,000. Total 685,000. For permanent establishments in the U.S., to man fixed.bases, provide anti-aircraft and air defense for the coasts, it needs a minimum of 1,000,000 more. It also needs a minimum task force of 75,000 to sally out if trouble breaks in any part of the Western Hemisphere. Grand total of these minima...
Father Takes a Wife (RKO Radio) is tailored to measure for almond-eyed Gloria Swanson, making her reappearance on the screen after seven years. A sophisticated comedy with enough snap in its dialogue and situations to earn a passing grade, it demands only a minimum performance from the hard-eyed, prognathous beauty who was once queen of the silent movies...
Previously upperclassmen have been confined to three meals a week outside of their House. The new system, by eliminating a huge bookkeeping overhead, removes one of the principal objections to eating around. Fears have been expressed, however, that without the present minimum, certain Houses would be overcrowded. Well, that depends on whether any House has a special attraction which would upset the law of averages. To our unjaundiced eye it doesn't appear that there is any such bias. It is greatly to be hoped that House masters and House committees will take the lid off, temporarily and experimentally...