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...have to take effect within the next two months. Proposals for larger outlays on public works, however meritorious in themselves, are not an effective way of dealing with the recession. Three steps by the Government would be extremely useful. One would be assurance that the Federal Reserve will not revert to its extreme credit policies...
...print an article about how clubs banded together to subsidize legal clearance for a wife charged with drilling her husband, and yet you seem to have no idea of the ramifications. I propose a counter-fund to provide legal counsel for husbands who may themselves revert, in a fit of pique, to the matrimonial-jungle law of divorce-by-firearms. Let's get this thing rolling before the girls realize that they now can rid the house of a mate as quickly and economically as kitchen garbage...
...Indian reservation into desert garden. In history's biggest lease of Indian lands for agricultural development, Barton will spend about $28 million to complete an irrigating system, also develop industrial and residential sites. Reservation's 1,400 Indians will get jobs, and much improved land will revert to them in 20 to 25 years...
...they filed before "the huge Gothic pile" to register as members of the Class of 1932. The eyes of Burke and Chatham looked severely down upon them, the jealous gargoyles stared angrily at the Yard behind them, and the clangor of the bell seemed to make time itself revert to the 19th century as they enrolled...
...situation today as work goes forward on this term's Landscapes is cloudy and ill-defined. No one is quite sure what will happen. The editors plan to revert to the procedure followed before the controversy: discussion of copy with their faculty adviser. Coulton hopes that students will find something other than sex, disease, and abnormality on which to base their stories--he has suggested printing philosophy papers submitted in courses...