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...ready to increase its border force under this proposal from a scant 1,000 to 10,000 men. It would likewise consolidate its four patrol forces?customs, Prohibition, coast guard, immigration?into one service to guard the border between ports of entry...
...occupancy by a year from next September falls as a surprise upon the ears of those who last Spring were given to understand that the plan would come slowly enough so that no man would be forced to live in a House who does not want to. A scant two years is hardly enough to win everyone involved over to a new scheme however sound or attractive, and when one deals with such an admittedly moot point as the House Plan the chances for wholesale conversion would seem to be considerably less...
...squatting sheltered in a native's snow-drifted skin-&-driftwood house. If so, they did not see or were unable to signal a searching plane which flew from Teller, base of relief operations, to the Nanuk. The plane is still at the ship, held down by dismaying weather, scant fuel...
...three Manhattan premières-First Airphonic Suite for RCA Theremin* and Orchestra by Russian Joseph Schillinger; Overture to a Don Quixote by Jean Rivier, 33-year-old Parisian; and New Year's Eve in New York by Werner Janssen, 30, Manhattan jazz pianist and composer. Critics paid scant attention to the first half of the program. The Chabrier was tame, the d'Indy lovely but pallid. The Clevelanders played well, but the last half agitated some critical pens...
...celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony anticipates the tercentenary of the College by a scant six years, and although the college will undoubtedly mark its own birthday, it will also have a prominent part to play in the state-wide celebrations which take place next year. The Law School will have an important position, as the observance of the tercentenary emphasizes the introduction of self-government and civil liberties into the future United States. The College, which has contributed so much to the intellectual and political progress of the state...