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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aftermath have not brought in their wake any sudden upturn in business ethics. And while most local tradesmen treat students fairly, there are always a few on the periphery of the Square business world who are governed by the famous motto of P. T. Barnum. The recent rash of threatened suits against a local furniture dealer is evidence of this condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Consumer First Aid | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Robert McCarthy, an official of the CIO's United Furniture Workers, told a John Reed Society discussion group last night at Phillips Brooks House that the "real issue behind the recent CIO convention fight was not communism, but whether the so-called left wing unions were entitled to their autonomy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIO Man Speaks | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Dunster and Leverett, in recent television-versus-washing machine polls, both favored television. But Dunster, with a bulging House treasury, may also try out a washing machine. If it does so, it will take over Adams' role as the one-House experimenter. Adams was forced to abandon the idea last spring when its committee decided it would be too difficult to pay back a necessary $600 loan from the Student Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Rehearse Yule Plays, Worry Over TV and Washers | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Various University officials and their wives were scattered around the room, and around each was a tight circle of car-leaning freshmen. Throughout the room the recent Boston election was a conversational favorite. "Well, I'll say one thing," said one jovial official, "Curley wouldn't live to be 120 if he were an athletic director...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...difficult these days for the theater to compete with the cinema in the realms of fantasy and mystery. "Angel Street" is the exception in recent years. "The Closing Door" has plenty of thrills and short-lived suspense, but as a play it is not altogether satisfying...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Closing Door | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

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