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...right on with their work in burning buildings while the next Nazi load of incendiary bombs was being brought up at full throttle. Only when these actually began to fall did firemen take cover, not in air-raid shelters but simply by jumping for the nearest doorway or partial shelter. One elderly woman, so paralyzed by fear that she was unable to go to a shelter, found herself watching the firemen, began brewing them a bucket...
...expressed the opinions that the members of the Houses are not receiving, a fair return for the present board charges and that better meals could be served at lower prices. Since it became clear during the course of this investigation that board rates might possibly be lowered by the partial substitution of students for waitresses, the Committees is issuing this supplementary report on student waiting. Nevertheless, it wishes to emphasize its belief that the question of student waiting is subordinate in importance to the remedying of the dining-hall inefficiency and waste pointed to by evidence in the first report...
...determine what the sentiment of House members was on this issue, the Committee conducted a poll. Of the 862 men who answered the question: "If a weekly savings of 50 cents per person was made possible by the partial replacement of waitresses by student waiters, would you favor such a change...
...measure of goods consumption, bank debits include too many other transactions to be reliable. But by the same token they measure general spending better than such partial indexes as retail sales. Bank debits include checks drawn by little businesses as well as big, the checks cashed by small employers to pay their help, the checks with which individuals pay their bills, etc. (Bank debits in 131 trade centres after seasonal adjustment recently declined so severely that it was the major factor which last week carried TIME'S Index of Business Conditions to a new two-year...
Next a Baltimore delegate, Edward J. Colgan Jr., nominated Millard Tydings interminably, pausing at last to remark doggedly "... I have given you but a partial picture . . ." to a cacophony of heartfelt boos. For Tydings there was but one feeble cheer. Wright Moody, a ponderous grey-haired Texan, nominated John Nance Garner monotonously for what seemed like hours to the sleepy, hot delegates. More boos...