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Charles Holmes Herty, 64, adviser to the Chemical Foundation, chemical consultant, the American Institute of Chemists medal; for striving to make useful paper out of Georgia's cheap slash pine...
...periods when financial retrenchment becomes necessary the whittling-down process often brings into the lime-light expenditures of money which on examination prove to have been virtually useless and unworthy, while better causes have been starving from non-support. Already there has had to be a decided slash in expenditures for winter sports by reducing schedules and an unfortunate elimination of Junior Varsity teams. More important, athletic officials have also indicated definitely that the baseball squad will not take its annual spring trip this year...
...away Civil Guards grew tired of slapping thousands of citizens back from the National Assembly with the flats of their sabres, began brutally to slash, drew blood. Back & back the mob surged like a great wounded beast, but did not disperse, stayed to raise conflicting shouts of "Down with the Church!" and "Long live Christ the King...
...year to talk to British voters of budget retrenchments. But he is no vote-monger; he is an able financier, an insurance man. In the report which his committee presented was the blunt warning: "The nation cannot go on borrowing to meet its current requirements." He urged a budget slash of $469,370,000. Labor's Big Five studied the May report sourly last week, looking for some economies which could be put in force without costing political necks...
...flavor to be expected by Colyumist Doherty's colyums was indicated by a double-page spread in the Journal-Post, a copy of a fierce letter from Tycoon Doherty to the trustees of the Star, which had agitated the fight in Kansas to slash Cities Service gas rates. (The trustees-Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde, Jesse Clyde Nichols & Herbert B. Jones-had negotiated the sale of the Star by the estate of the late Founder William Rockhill Nelson to the present employes and management, headed by snake-hating George Baker Longan.) Excerpts from the letter...