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...sale of silverware. So many of our customers have asked how we came out that we feel that this report should be given. The mark we were aiming at was the $44,000 sale of the Slavick Jewelry Co. of Los Angeles. . . . Our sale fell short by many thousand dollars, total sales here being...
This unemployment census is the second of its kind, but it represents a much more thorough study than the minor one undertaken in 1930. It is estimated that several hundred thousand persons in Massachusetts are unemployed, and the purpose of the census is to discover what classes of persons are out of work, what their previous earnings have been, and which industries have been most strongly affected. The first report will be ready on January 1, and a further analysis of the data will probably be carried on in order to study all sides of the problem...
...guarding the secret of exactly how much grain Russia has raised, a secret worth money to grain speculators such as the Soviet Government. Premier Molotov declared with gusto: "One billion five hundred million bushels of grain will be at the disposal of the people. . . . Our reserves are enormous. . . . Ten thousand new bread shops will be opened before April 1. ... In 1928, when bread rationing began, there were 123,000 State and cooperative stores. Today there...
...This is my university," bellowed Senator Huey Pierce Long last month. 'I can fire a thousand of these students and get ten thousand in place of them any time I feel like it." Last week Senator Long had made a start toward carrying out his boast. Twenty-six students were summarily suspended...
Last summer at Bar Harbor, Mr. Anderson began writing letters to editors and to such wealthy, influential individuals as George Woodward Wickersham, George Wharton Pepper, Harry Harkness Flagler, Bishops William Thomas Manning and Ernest Milore Stires. To Mr. Flagler. he wrote: "Dr. Hartwell has promised us one thousand cases of cancer to be placed in various hospitals. In addition to this we are almost certain of the support of one of the foundations. All I can do is to sing 'Glory on the Glory Road...