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...pajama-clad Yardlings assembled, and water began to seep under first floor doorsills, firemen determined the cause of the nocturnal deluge to be the mysterious melting of wax in a second floor sprinkler. Head Fire Chief Herman E. Gutholm was heard to mutier, as he drove away in disgust. "Sabotage, no doubt...
...signed up Westinghouse for the first time on a nationwide basis. Where would labor, angrily watched by its enemies, anxiously watched by its friends, head during the next few months? On good industrial relations depended the defense program. Labor still maintained its right to strike, it still struck (seep...
...clever piece of publicity and a method whereby the Old Grads will be ready for the coming change of policy at that Boston school. Of course this impending change of policy has not been made known to the press of the nation but what news of it does seep out, we are certain that it will cause repercussions throughout the country. Since we learned of this change from an unusually reliable source, we do not hesitate to pass it on. When we heard of this, we intended to play ball with Haavahd, but because of "unfair scheduling tactics...
Huge though these items seemed, the public learned in driblets that there was much more to come. First fact to seep out was that the President's big proposals did not mean much in themselves. Actually to make the purchases which he referred to last week would cost at least $3,000,000,000 ; to round out the Army and Navy to his new scale would cost uncalculated billions more. Even his $1,182,000,000 was bound to mean 1) new taxes, or 2) lifting the present debt limit of $45,000,000,000. Yet Congress last week...
...Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins on the Potomac. Chief conversational topic: the current state of U. S. business. When Harry Hopkins got back to his desk he expressed what was doubtless the trio's consensus: that to read the latest resolutions of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce (seep. 67), "it would seem that apparently, some of them don't believe in this economic system...