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...time, Hershey had warned that students attending college in '53 would face stiffer deferment rules, because of a higher passing grade on the draft examination...
...official, who asked that his name be withheld, attempted to clear up the confusion from a recent warning by Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service. Hershey had announced that students who expected to attend college next fall faced much stiffer deferment regulations...
...wish the code had a stiffer penalty for those taking advantage of poor people," said the prosecutor. "This man made a fool out of a poor, honest working girl." The presiding judge agreed. Last week he sentenced Valentin to four years and three months in prison, plus an indemnity of 20,000 pesetas to be paid to Maria. But the 27-year-old ex-marquesa, who had taken time off from her job as a charwoman to testify, bore no grudge. Her work-reddened hands hidden in the folds of a rich, black silk dress, the one remnant...
President Lowell officially welcomed the new students at a reception in the Union. There they heard Dean Briggs explain the new, and stiffer, scholastic ruling--three C's and a D for a minimum of four courses instead of two C's and a D for a minimum of five. Groaning they heard that a series of lectures would be added to English...
...last year's. The hard-hit textile industry picked up to the point where raw wool prices were on the rise again, and rayon and acetate shipments were up 4½% since March. The wholesale-price average of all commodities turned up 0.1% for the week, indicating a stiffer demand for raw materials. Moreover, construction, long a mainstay of the boom, was still running 5% ahead of last year's level in spite of FRB's failure to remove its Regulation X curbs on building...