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...Munitions and Supply under quiet, hard-working Minister Clarence D. Howe. Mr. Howe has spent much time in Washington, has much respect for the U. S. commissioners and what they have managed to do up to now. But Canada's dollar-a-year-men (Ottawa's swank Chateau Laurier swarms with them) unanimously declare that the U. S. is bound to have many a headache, many a defense delay unless a board or a supply department with real powers and a single head is substituted for the present Washington setup...
...children daily were moved out of London, dispersed in the safer countryside. Health Minister Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late Ramsay, called on 14 of the less heavily bombed boroughs of London last week to give shelter to 20,000 homeless from boroughs which have suffered more. In the swank West End many vacant homes and apartments were turned over to the poorest evacuees from grimy Limehouse and other East End slums. The once pro-Nazi Lord Redesdale, whose daughter the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford came home from Naziland with a bullet mysteriously embedded in her throat, offered...
...this trend. Only tangible growth in city vacancies (hence lower rents) was in the upper brackets-houses and apartments renting for $45 or $50 a month and more. In much-moving Manhattan, renters in that bracket found reductions averaging 2½ to 5%. Biggest rap was taken by swank East Side apartments (seven rooms or over), where realtors found tenants beginning to economize by taking smaller units. Landlords, leery of giving tenants any weapon which might be used to beat down rents, did not talk, but last week the U. S. Census Bureau put New York City vacancies...
...Into the swank Savoy Hotel shelter, where guests can dine, dance and sleep, marched 50 ill-clad men & women with two children. Leading the pack was Phil Piratin, famed Hyde Park Communist orator. Two elegant Savoy directors, a constable and a Scotland Yard detective could not make them budge, but the stunt missed fire when the all clear sounded after only 13 minutes...
Last week he had many plans for Hunter. What the college lacks in swank, it makes up in vigor. Hunter girls, mostly Jewesses who grew up on the sidewalks of New York, go to college to study. Smart (they must pass stiff entrance tests) and hardworking, they often help support their families while attending college. Many Hunter girls become public-school teachers; some, Macy's salesgirls. But most of them (relatively more than at such a college as Vassar) will be housewives...