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...house building. It is not a public housing bill. It would act only as a stimulus to private enterprise. With a yearly cost of only $143,000,000, it could produce in ten years 15,000,000 dwelling units, of which only 500,000 would be public housing. The W-E-T bill would help provide homes that rent from $30 to $50 a month, a fact which causes landlords and realtors who are enjoying inflated prices to look on the bill with fishy eyes. A whole bevy of pressure groups, including the American Legion, is trying to block Congressional...
Besides Bradford, the rething Overseers are Winthrop W. Aldrich '07, Arthur A. Ballantine '04, John W. Farley '99, and Robert E. Sherwood...
...extremely interested in reading the letter addressed to you by H. W. Claybaugh of Little Rock, Ark. [TIME, May 12]. He cites the Preamble to the Constitution. Then he asks and answers the questions: "How many of these objectives are the Communists helping us to secure? Are they helping us form a more perfect union?" Mr. Claybaugh answers both in the negative...
...Storer College at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., has a magnificent view of the Potomac gap, which Thomas Jefferson thought was ". . . worth a voyage across the Atlantic." On Storer's campus stands the Arsenal that John Brown held for 60 hours. Moved from the site in downtown Harpers Ferry where Major Robert E. Lee captured Old Osawatomie, it was presented to the college...
Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder handed his daughter, Edith, a diploma from George Washington University, and got an honorary LL.D. for himself...