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...Baraboo, Wis., Otto Bach, arrested on a charge of forging checks, was released, placed on three-year probation when he explained: "I manufacture check protectors to prevent forgeries. Business is slack and I ran out of funds...
Significance. Fundamental issue raised by the unionists' war on WPA was: what is work-relief? Is it work undertaken by Government to take up slack when private work is lagging? Or is it jobs thought up, invented and financed to occupy idle men, keep alive their working instinct, health and habits, sustain their purchasing power? Into neither of these basic conceptions fits the unions' assumption that work-relief must ensure the pay-scales for which unions have organized and fought, and by which, in fat times, they have profited...
...Matched, two-piece cotton slack suits, now considered acceptable only as "extreme negligee" for beach wear, to sell at around $5 per suit...
...schedule is again pretty slack for the week with Princeton being slated to play Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in the only League game. Bix Six in League Player AB R H Ave. Polzer, Cor. 42 10 19 .452 Hill, P. 31 4 14 .452 Lupien, H. 37 9 16 .432 Bowen, Cor. 28 5 12 .429 Besse, Y. 27 2 11 .407 Trexler...
...knows the cause of facial neuralgia, but to relieve pain physicians some times inject alcohol into the tough, sinuous trigeminal (facial) nerve or sever its root. Neither of these treatments is satisfactory, however, for alcohol injections may give only transient relief, and a severed nerve may impart a slack, dead expression to one side of the face...