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...quick profit instead of engaging in long-term constructive efforts, to maintain what the monetary economists call 'liquidity of assets,' but in easily salable goods rather than money-all these underlie the corruption. Corruption is only the froth and foam on the crest of this massive ground swell of civic demoralization...
...matter was dropped when Tallulah agreed "on condition that I can ask you the same questions." Visiting the White House on the heels of a group of reformed women prisoners, she made Franklin Roosevelt roar with laughter at her first words to him: "We'll get along swell. You like delinquent girls...
...unmanned, on a test dip of 4,250 feet (deeper than the man-aboard record of 3,028 feet set in 1934 by William Beebe, but far short of the 2½ miles Professor Piccard was hoping for). When the bathyscaphe surfaced, it was caught in a heavy ground swell and banged against the ship, and some of its equipment was wrecked. The left-handed professor* called off the expedition and sadly headed for home, but he thought he might try again next year...
Gifts of money totalling $400 will swell University and Radcliffe funds this week by a vote of the trustees of the A. C. Ratchesky Foundation. Radcliffe's 70th anniversary alumnae fund will be allotted $200; the University's Cancer and Infantile Paralysis Commissions were granted $100 apiece...
Proceeds of Radcliffe Night at the Complex Theater in Boston November 4 will help swell the Annex 70th Anniversary Fund toward its $400,000 total...