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Reporting to Congress on an investigation of NYA during the past year, Mr. Warren declared he had found evidence of NYA misspending (on travel expenses, Christmas cards, excessive telephoning, etc.). But his gravest charge was that NYA, to keep up its quota of enrollees and justify its appropriations ($161,000,000 this year), had asked Army recruiting officers to refrain from trying to enlist NYA boys...
...banning from the ballot of the Socialists in many states last November, and the New York business men's conference which avowed a preference toward fascism over Socialism? And "Socialism" is a brand for New Dealers in their vocabulary. The problem of the Midwest has not had its quota of thought and discussion, perhaps because it is political dynamite. A hotbed of isolationism, this section is not likely to support enthusiastically a full-scale war; yet when the war is over its people will presumably be asked to submit to a trade-pact tariff-lowering policy, which they feel...
...Studying and practicing modern research methods. About two hours a day is the quota for getting experience which will fit you to sell Frigidaires to Eskimos or yourself to the girl of your dreams, according to your slant on things...
...taking meals in other Houses more than three times a week. The present rule is almost paradoxical, since Harvard is noted for its treatment of undergraduates as rational human beings. Furthermore, a "host" rarely has the effrontery to ask his guest if he is exceeding his outside meal quota, and so frequently gets stuck if he is exceeding his outside meal quota, and so frequently gets stuck with the check. If an unlimited inter-House meal plan were adopted, visiting could logically be curtailed during House dinners and other special occasions...
...frontiers, drops M. Boyer, 42, into the U.S. melting pot. As Georges Iscovescu, renowned European gigolo and dancer, he is one of a hotelful of émigrés impatiently waiting to cross into the U.S. from a little Mexican border town. Impatient at the slow arrival of his quota number, he takes a tip from a former dancing partner (Paulette Goddard) who has married her way across the U.S.-Mexican border...