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...like Senator Elmer Thomas and Father Coughlin have been yammering for. But if the bill is enacted in anything like its present form, the U. S. banking system will be completely dominated by whatever President is in power. Said old Professor Irving Fisher, no hard-shelled Tory: "It comes nearer to making the President an economic dictator than all previous legislation put together...
...forget that the idea of any university should be the enrichment of life not only through contact with fine books and enlightened professors but also through the visual arts. Therefore in letting a good artist, which Orosco is, do a series of murals, Dartmouth has approached one step nearer than Harvard to being a center of culture and enlightenment...
...FERA employes. Secretary Ickes announced the average cost of each house to be $4,880. Neighborhood observers, telling of useless wells dug and houses badly grouped for the laying of sewers, water mains and electric conduits, suggested that double or triple that figure would be nearer the truth...
...those who prefer to ski nearer Cambridge, the following places are recommended: the hills in Groton, the Winchester Country Club, and the Commonwealth Country Club. A small charge is made in some places in Groton...
...Ocean which keeps us apart." Author LeCocq has been to England; Author Douglas has not. Their little (112-page) satire on their Motherland scores many a palpable hit, is never far off the mark. Both for Americans who have been to England and for those who have never been nearer than Punch, Britannia Waives the Rules will be good interlinear reading...