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...agitators are not allowed on College premises student groups moved yesterday to assist the workers' party in realizing its aspiration to make Harvard the model for university unionizations. It was revealed that Tufts, Mt. Holyoke, and Wellesley will be attacked soon to obtain bargaining rights for employees in upkeep work...
...business would like the prospect of a balanced budget, it would also like the immediate stimulus of a flow of Government spending. Equal to this apparent dilemma, Franklin Roosevelt told the same press conference that he would urge Government departments to spend current appropriations totaling $245,000,000 for upkeep and supplies at once instead of spreading them over the next seven months...
...deaf-mutes who attended the convention of the 57-year-old organization last week danced to the music of a five-piece band, which they felt through their feet. They learned that the only "impostor" (a person of sound hearing who poses as deaf to cadge charitable upkeep) to appear during the past three years, one Charles Burton of Altoona. Pa., had been punished by law, then killed by a motorcar. They pointed with pride to the deaf-mutes who make high mark in the world today-Sculptor Elmer A. Hannon, Poet Howard Leslie Terry, blind Pianist Helen May Martin...
...friends remained close through the years. One day Grant spied Prime Minister MacDonald in a London subway, took him to task for wasting his energy unnecessarily, told him he should use a motor. When MacDonald, who had no private income, explained that he could not afford the upkeep of a car, Grant gave him one and endowed it with 30,000 preferred shares of McVitie & Price at ?1 each. Three months later Prime Minister MacDonald successfully advised King George V to confer a baronetcy on Grant. In the House of Commons, His Majesty's Loyal Opposition rose savagely...
...incorporated his yacht and transferred to the corporation $3,000,000 in securities. Much of the income from these securities then escaped taxation, being used to pay the "losses" of the corporation from which he "chartered" the yacht at fees which fell far short of paying its upkeep. Other rich men formed partnerships with their wives and children thus splitting their income several ways so as to escape high surtaxes. A retired Army officer who has a large income from securities which he hopes to sell at big profit, took out Canadian citizenship papers and transferred his securities to four...