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...Remarkable in being built completely without Federal financial aid, the Golden Gate Bridge will repay its bondholders by tolls like those on San Francisco's other great bridge across the bay to Oakland. Last week, after six months' operation, 4,408,092 vehicles had crossed the Bay Bridge, yielding tolls of $2,575,500. Traffic has been so much greater than expected that the toll was cut from...
...that the History 1 faculty has been brought face to face with the fact that the Dizzy Dean at the Freshman Smoker had nothing to do with deans of University Hall, it might repay inquiry to discover how any responsible person could get such an idea of the men who administer the daily life of the college. For a man holding the position of dean must combine the executive ability to keep the wheels of industry rolling, the personal charm to inspire the confidence of students and outsiders with whom he comes in contact, and the intellectual outlook...
...Clem Hawley (Wallace Beery) is a likable small-town toper, whose worst sin is getting drunk with his crony, Al (Ted Healy), and Mrs. Hawley's hired girl. Young Clem Hawley (Eric Linden) is an obnoxious young bank clerk who steals his mother's savings to repay money embezzled from the till to buy summer ermine for a night club dancer. Ostracized by his wife and suspected of his son's theft, Old Clem Hawley shows what he is made of. He explodes his son's romance with the dancer, finds the money...
...Delay in any court results in injustice. It makes lawsuits a luxury available only to the few who can afford them or who have property interests to protect which are sufficiently large to repay the cost. . . . The Supreme Court is laboring under a heavy burden. Its difficulties in this respect were superficially lightened some years ago by authorizing the Court, in its discretion, to refuse to hear appeals in many classes of cases. This discretion was so freely exercised that in the last fiscal year, although 867 petitions for review were presented to the Supreme Court, it declined to hear...
John L. Lewis' crude presentation of his campaign I. O. U. to Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight, his demand that the President now repay his political debt to Mr. Lewis by joining him in his war on General Motors (TIME, Feb. 1), put the New Deal in a highly uncomfortable position. By forcing the President to hand the C. I. O. chieftain a veiled but unmistakable rebuke, it left the New Deal appearing to side, against 3,500,000 friends, with those onetime pillars of the Liberty League, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and the du Ponts...