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...Senators who had returned from the summer recess listened to Franklin Roosevelt's message this week in embarrassed silence. When they heard the President's threat to take executive action unless they gave him a new inflation law by Oct. 1, some sat bolt upright, some grinned, many frowned. At the end there was light, chilly applause. To Congress the President's promise of action in October sounded too much like a threat...
...largest contribution in the drive so far was an upright piano from Eliot House which will provide material for an estimated four machine guns. Head collectors for the drive which is under Bradley Cobb '44, are; in Dunster, Richard A. Beyer '44; in Eliot, James McNulty '45; in Adams, James S. Wattermacher '46; in Lowell. Walter H. Kamp '43; in Leverett, Robert H. Koch '44; in Dudley, Gerald Woodland '45; in Wigglesworth, Richard S. Suter '42; and in Winthrop, William C. Dunckle...
...perhaps the Guild asked U.S. women for too great a sacrifice. The health magazine Hygeia stated this month that, since the human body is "not designed to stand and walk upright," girdles are A-I-a to feminine health and posture. Said Hygeia...
...illiterate but devoted peasant girl who was ostracized from the Mennonite Church for bearing him two children out of wedlock, Rembrandt moved to dingy quarters over a ghetto junk shop, and continued to paint more intensely than ever. When his son, whom he idolized, died in 1668, aged but upright Painter Rembrandt stumped in proud sorrow to the graveyard, dressed in his best: a moth-eaten, fur-lined overcoat spattered with paint...
...Dorothy Lucas and her 18-month-old baby, Diana, were ripped out of their frame house, blown 500 feet to death, their bodies stripped of clothing. Doorjamb of the Lucas house, still bearing the small metal numerals of the address, was torn from the rest of the wreckage, jammed upright in the ground near Mrs. Lucas, like a grave marker...