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...came abreast of her berth at West 50th Street was no blow to the prestige of the port, but it was a mighty confirmation of the prestige of British seamanship. At 6:10 a. m. the 1,018-ft. ship lay in mid stream. Wind was down, tide was slack. Ten minutes later her 118-ft. beam was dead-centred in the 400-ft. slip between the Cunard and Italian Line piers. From the fo'c'sle head whistled two long, light heaving lines attached to ten-inch hawsers. Two men in a rowboat fished the light lines...
...delights in relating tales of Harvard men who have dropped in, attracted by the "Veritas" motte outside, who are amazed to find their father's names in the Harvard Book. Some, she declares, have even found their grandfathers' signatures. The day this correspondent visited the House, business was rather slack, so he and Mrs. Pplow opened the top part of the front door and engaged in a loud conversation regarding the fact that the House was University property, in the cans outside might be tempted in. Northing but a small Yale man clad in shorts and a huge knapsack...
Hesketh Pearson is an impressionable, aggressive English biographer and actor, a hater of psychology, politics, literary "style," for whom "two and two equal any sum that takes my fancy." This last credo has made his biographies (Doctor Darwin, Tom Paine, Gilbert and Sullivan) lively with anecdotes, slack on background. A onetime clerk who answered his boss's questions with quotations from Shakespeare, Pearson began his theatrical career under Beerbohm Tree, whose advice consisted mainly of such enigmatic nonsense as telling him not to suck his thumb. As an actor, he had one brief success, when he substituted...
England's slump appeared in unemployment figures totaling 1,802,912 against 1,356,598 year ago; in slack seasons for seaside resorts like Brighton, Bournemouth and Ryde; in coal production, down from 20,000,000 tons year ago to 17,000,000 this June. The figures which most jolted British investors were the earning reports of the four chief railway companies-London & North Eastern, London, Midland & Scottish, Great Western, The Southern. Fortnight ago, when all four showed net revenues far below expectations and Great Western passed the first interim dividend since its consolidation, there were editorials in many...
...course, the Works Progress Administration. Having learned in previous years that announcement of the amounts of money he spends is a local publicity boomerang, Harry Hopkins talked of his plans in terms of men and jobs, not dollars. WPA's assignment is to take up unemployment slack rapidly at first, then more slowly as PWA's projects get going, then at full capacity when winter comes and heavy construction slows down. Last week WPA added 60,000 workers to its rolls, two-thirds of them in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Similar increases will be made each...