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...Under which freight charges were absorbed in order to meet competitive prices at distant points, and "phantom freight" was tacked on for nearer customers...
...Smuts is considered a great world statesman. At home, where Malan edged him from office by a narrow margin in 1948, Smuts is a politician who stands for internationalism and relative liberalism on the race question, while Malan's nationalism and increasingly stern apartheid (race segregation) bring tension nearer the snapping point in a nation one-fifth white and four-fifths black...
...items come first when there are." Now, Allston B23urr '89 has left the University an unrestricted gift of $1,500,000. Leaping over all priorities, the Corporation has decided to erect a club house on Mount Auburn Street, so that training tables which it cannot now support may be nearer the Houses...
Burr died in February, 1949, leaving the University an unrestricted gift of $1,500,000. In 1912 he gave the funds for the present Varsity Club, adjoining the Union, and in later years expressed a desire to see a new clubhouse built nearer to the Houses...
...deadline drew nearer, some California professors got ready to take their cases to court; others began casting about for new jobs. Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago spoke up, urged that professors all over the country chip in 2% of their salaries to aid California colleagues until they landed new positions...