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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have its beer, it would not whine about holidays. Harvard, too, would rejoice at Saturday freedom, despite mutterings of the Overseers. Perhaps Curley's calendar distortions would make a subject for a Cambridge mayoralty issue. That Curley could slip through the job is certain. He would not have to search far into his administration to find some one who is adept at the necessary juggling of figures...
...from Annapolis to the Admiral's South Carolina home. The children with the Admiral were: three girls, Nina, 15, Ludmila, 20, Tonia, 13; and two boys, Feodor, 14, Nikolai, 22. All were quickly picked up except Nina who was found swimming after a half hour's search. Two other adopted daughters are Mrs. William Moritz of New York and Mrs. Alexander Lastchencoff of Detroit. Admiral McCully, a bachelor of independent income, adopted the seven when he was special agent for the Department of State in the south of Russia. He was aided by Olga Alexandra Krundisheva, a refugee...
Sharp patent lawyers on the lookout for good suits have during recent years found the razor industry an especially pleasing field. But the motor industry, with its many gadgets and "basic principles" always offers opportunities. Big companies are always prepared for the sudden appearance of an angry inventor in search of damages...
Snowden, prowling last week in search of an economy that would not touch the poor, found what he wanted in Britain's diplomatic service, pruned the pay of Ambassadors and Ministers...
...factories, gloomy homes. "It distresses me," said St. Gandhi, "that in all this unemployment I have had some kind of share. ... It is the result of a step I took as my duty to the largest army of unemployed anywhere-the starving millions of India. ... I have come in search of a way out of the difficulty. ... I am powerless without the active co-operation of Lancashire and Englishmen" (i.e. in freeing India...