Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became prime factors and children picked all-day suckers, molasses candies and toffee for their money. Repeal, too, flayed its part in the candy business. Some unscrupulous businessmen in New Jersey discovered that candy containing hard liquor could be sold to children. Teachers in Brooklyn and Philadelphia began to note their pupils' dull eyes, thick speech, wobbly walk. The candies, selling for 2? apiece, held benedictine. cherry brandy, rum or cognac. Six of them, the equivalent of a short, stiff cocktail, were enough to make a child drunk. Several shopkeepers were arrested, claimed that they had bought the liquor...
...production is a spectre to the American capitalist. The extremes and contrasts that are always a part of Russia extend even more sharply as the country seeks rebirth and who find workers whose absorbing life interest is simply to exceed the production quota, who write down their thoughts in note-books and yet who cat "cabbage soup from rusty cans...
Rheumatic Chancellor Chamberlain magnanimously paraphrased last week's British note to the U. S., the text of which had leaked out prematurely in Washington "due to a misunderstanding for which the United States Government is in no way responsible." While announcing that no token payment would be made June 15, the note declared: "The attempt to transfer amounts of this magnitude would as its immediate effect cause a sharp depreciation of sterling against the dollar, which as His Majesty's Government understands would not be consistent with the monetary policy of the United States Government...
...DeCasseres has a perfectly good reason to object to Herr Hanfstaengl, but he conceals it under an absurd cover. We suggest that he re-read his Spinoza (which, we note, is one of his interests). That classic moralist would have frankly stated his real objection. SCIO
...cavalry and hussars, appeared a few days ago on the Eliot House Bulletin board. It reads: "No parking will be allowed on Bolyston Street between Mt. Auburn Street and the River on Saturday, June 9th commencing at midnight tonight until 5 P. M. Saturday." Carefully inscribed below is a note to the effect that "this is a police regulation." And thus another fertile "parking" ground is denied the Eliot House playboys who seem inclined to seek them...