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...duplex) was recently rented for $300, while a four-room one in the building called "home" by Auburn's Errett Lobban Cord costs $200 against the former price of $300. In the cheaper apartments of from $50 to $80 a month there is only a 7% vacancy. The white-collar Lawndale district has vacancies of 5% against 16% in the cheaper '"Canal" section. Owned residences (31% of Chicagoans own their homes) are 7% vacant. A notable 1932 trend: families unable to place their children in private schools as they used to do have moved to the country rather...
Youngest, highest (the Capitol is exactly one mile above sea level), most isolated of U. S. cities, Denver is much like many U. S. small towns. It is full of maples, poplars and elms. The people are placid, brisk, nearly all white-collar workers. The proportion of Rotarians, Kiwanians and life insurance salesmen is said to be higher than anywhere else in the world. It is full of retired invalids who bought Cities Service around 55 (now around 4). There are few factories, little smoke. The clear, dry, rarefied air is equable during the day, cool at night. Denverites claim...
...temper of the crowd melted. Commander Waters was released to present to Speaker Garner a petition against adjournment. But first he went before the Capitol to announce: "I've got permission for you to use these centre steps. But you've got to keep a lane open for the white-collar birds inside so they won't rub into us lousy rats. We're Agoing to stay here until I see Hoover...
...Conference thus far has been ratified unanimously, but 30 of these 31 conventions have been adopted by one or more nations and are binding upon the ratifiers. The 31st and completely unratified draft convention was adopted by the Conference two years ago, sought to create better working conditions for white-collar workers, proverbially friendless and unrepresented in the world's parliaments...
Publisher Peck, while continuing to move among Brooklyn aristocrats in town and out at Locust Valley, decided to gear his paper to the white-collar middle class, and he proceeded to pour money into it. He made the Times a typical "home"' paper, unsensational, non-crusading, bursting with local news and civic pride. He initiated a costly carrier delivery service, then an innovation in Greater New York (since copied by other Brooklyn papers). In less than ten years the Times reached 100,000 circulation. The Eagle still has more than twice as much advertising, but last year it lost...