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...Committee reported out the Independent Offices Supply Bill, shrunk by over $94,000,000 from what Mr. Roosevelt warned was the lowest figure that could be attained without impairing efficiency. Declared Representative Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia, member of the Committee: "We believe these reductions have been made . . . without seriously crippling any needed Government activity." Wielder of many an ice pack in the past, fleshy Clifton Woodrum has taken an oath, and made the rest of his sub-committee swear, not to let any bill get past the committee if its appropriation exceeds the President's budget estimate. Last...
...which virtually monopolizes the city's utilities, estimated a 1,500,000 decrease in customers since war broke. At the most conservative, each of those customer households represented two people. At least 3,000,000 people, therefore, had by last week been evacuated or mobilized, and London had shrunk smaller than New York City (7,425,000) and Tokyo...
Music's "anti-aggression front" salvoed its reply last week. In Lucerne, Switzerland, for the second year, opened a month-long festival designed to cabbage some of the Salzburg trade. Biggest tourist bait, as he was last summer, was Arturo Toscanini, whose European pond has shrunk rapidly in recent years. He was down for five concerts, including two performances of a work from which he generates much heat, the Verdi Requiem, to be done in Lucerne's old Jesuit Church. Four concerts were to be broadcast, and Toscanini's son-in-law, Vladimir Horowitz, able pianist...
Bishop Ablewhite had, according to the Tribune, discovered shortages in diocesan funds soon after his consecration in 1930. One fund, which had shrunk from $40,000 to $30,000 was in the bishop's discretion to invest as he liked, and use for good works of any kind. In an attempt to recoup the losses, the bishop became involved with a promoter, one Harry S. Lyons, who called himself a onetime Navy captain. For a time Lyons made money for Bishop Ablewhite, and during these palmy days the two, sometimes with their wives, frequented Chicago nightspots. Finally, said...
...Twenty old U. S. residents of China released in Shanghai a survey of conditions in the nine Japanese-occupied Chinese cities of Nanking, Kaifeng, Suchow, Chinkiang, Canton, Soochow, Hangchow, Hankow and Tsinan. The cities' pre-war combined population of 5,800,000 had shrunk, they said, to 2,400,000. The Chinese puppet administrations were "weak, inefficient and corrupt," business was depressed, there was widespread unemployment, prostitution was rampant and narcotics were sold openly under Japanese auspices. Their conclusion: "The whole former trend of constructive development has been shattered, and devastation, chaos and oppression brought in a regime which...