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...million during September to a record $78.7 billion, in spite of the efforts of retailers to trim their stocks. There were also scattered production cuts, and layoffs, and some price cuts to relieve overstocking in gasoline, shoes, television sets, automatic washers and refined sugar. But from the standpoint of the whole economy, such cutbacks were not large...
Dean Godolphin says that in the interest of promoting class spirit the Dean's Office is willing to make some concessions. Not only from a social standpoint is unity desirable, however. "Molding the class is partly to aid in the good, old tough job of fund raising," Godolphin says...
...committee on the Judiciary, headed by Sen. William E. Jenner (Rep.-Ind.) came to Boston last March, the Post gave the first day's hearings six pages of publicity. This, despite its editorial of the previous week, which opposed televising such hearings because "excess publicity is bad from any standpoint except that of the personal publicity that is likely to accrue to committee members." The day before the hearings opened, Kirtley Mather, professor of Geology, who for years has been accused of Communist front activities, announced he had been subpoenaed and said he "would cooperate to the fullest extent possible...
...earthly eye, the hotel ballroom seemed less than a quarter full, but the Rev. Richard Renardo looked out over the empty chairs and said: "All our loved ones from the spirit world are with us. The room is not large enough when you consider it from that standpoint...
...today, it is rapidly becoming reality. Most Southerners feel that unless they make "separate but equal" a fact, the courts are sure to saddle them with "whole hog" rulings, i.e., complete equality. Many states are hastily building fine new Negro schools and hospitals, although from a purely economic standpoint, "separate but equal" schools are insanely wasteful. Most Southerners no longer sneer at the educated Negro as "biggety"; many want to help the Negro get a better education, better jobs and better housing, and let the rest take care of itself...