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...broken, he claims he can put the El on its own feet by installing escalators, refurbishing cars, teaching courtesy to its surly guards. Meantime Insurgent Amster is also trying to force I. R. T. receivers to pay interest already overdue on Manhattan's first mortgage bonds to stave off foreclosure. When & if New York's transit facilities are unified under public control, he believes Manhattan stock (of which he claims he owns more than 50,000 shares) will be worth $30 a share. Last week it sold...
...Chinese idealism swing Christ-wards, will be many a missionary's meat. Mrs. Buck's Virginia parents, named Sydenstricker, were missionaries. She was born in China. Her husband heads Nanking University's farm management department. She well knows the importance of food in China. Once she saw her mother stave off a massacre with a batch of cookies. Mrs. Buck spent ten years reading the whole body of Chinese novels before she herself wrote. She is now translating the Chinese classic Shuihu, written in the 13th Century by Shih Nai-han. Seventy chapters long, this book will not appear before...
...game was exciting from start to finish, with the Freshmen struggling desperately to stave off the attacks of a more experienced team. A. D. Cadman '35, who has played previously in England was particularly outstanding for the 1935 group and combined with H. M. Field '35 to score all of the Freshman goals. By using several University men, Winthrop considerably strengthened its forces, and made it impossible for the fighting Freshmen to score a decisive victory. John Megaw sL. played brilliantly for Winthrop...
...Cheered a pledge by Premier Pierre Laval to stave off unemployment, which has come late to prosperous France, by spending four billion francs ($150,000,000) extra on public works...
Looking forward to the time when the banks must reopen, the Government announced a $71,000,000 loan to the Dresdner Bank to stave off a threatened run. The loan will be made by buying three-fourths of the bank's outstanding stock. At the same time it was definitely announced that whenever German banks do reopen, that other D bank in distress, the Danat, would reopen too, the Government guaranteeing depositors' funds. Correspondents realized that with the Reichsbank dictating to all German banks, with the Government owning two of the greatest remaining private banks, state capitalism...