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...Sixteen of the 374 cases were close to nervous breakdowns. "In ten cases there was definite threat of suicide ... in four cases mothers threatened desertion and in two, mothers threatened to 'do away' with their children." Cleveland's crisis came to an end when the City Council approved a $1,050,000 bond issue, restored "full relief." Commenting on the report, Governor Bricker disowned responsibility, said his duty was "not from the standpoint of administration, but only to see that funds were available. Any lapse there was the sole responsibility of the local stations...
...State Penitentiary is old enough to be remembered with horror by Dickens in his American Notes (1842). It was known then, as now, as the Cherry Hill prison. One night last week, over Philadelphia's KYW, the inmates of 110-year-old Cherry Hill staged their Christmas musicale. Sixteen pent-up voices serenaded The Little Man Who Wasn't There; assorted whistlers, fiddlers, ladybug plunkers whanged away at heart strings beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner's song, written...
Inter-House debating will resume its second semester late in February, continuing through the spring. Sixteen debates are scheduled for that period, the same as last session...
...Senior Sixteen were taken into Phi Beta Kappa at the meeting. Eight members are chosen by the Society during their Junior Year, 16 during the first part of their Senior year, and 65 at Commencement...
...year-old ex-waitress, who is facing deportation to the British West Indies, where she has a husband and a sixteen-year old daughter, is being held at the Immigration Office in East Boston pending her hearing before the Federal Board...