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...Priests are automatically deprived of all civil rights?that is to say, they are not allowed to possess ration cards nor are they allotted to any housing space. They have to shift for themselves or?as usually happens?they are fed and housed by their congregations. It has to be said that the majority of priests are well cared for. At the slightest sign of counter-revolutionary activity they are at once shot, imprisoned or banished to Siberia...
...merits of a college debate is perhaps of no great significance when one of the debaters is on "home grounds" and presumably has the sympathy of a majority of the listeners. . . . It was hardly to be expected, however, that the majority against Harvard would be so large--the ration was perhaps ten or fifteen to one . . . Probably three or five or any number of individual judges would have been unanimous for Boston College or pretty nearly so, as the young men from the Heights outgeneralled their adversaries, marshalled arguments more skillfully, were more serious and more dignified, used better diction...
...Delano Roosevelt. Officials throughout the land pricked up their ears to hear what New York was going to do next about crime. To the legislature Governor Roosevelt proposed: 1) large additional appropriations for prison construction; 2) five emergency prison camps for outdoor work; 3) increase of prisoner's ration allowance from 21? to 26?; 4) more prudent selection and training of guards...
...would be tried for their lives. He promised to make special penal recommendations to the legislature next month concerning: 1) A five-year building program to increase prison accommodations by 3,000; 2) Construction of a new 1,000-men model prison at Attica; 3) Increase in prisoners' daily ration allowance from 21¢ to 26¢ 4) Work for every prisoner, with pay for all work...
AnotherTeachers' College pedagog, Miss Alice Dalgliesh, tried to restore faculty calm. She, a teacher of storytelling, urged a compromise between the factual and the sentimental, endorsed Miss Moore's "balanced ration" of child literature. The list...