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...Woven into the fabric of complex New York City is the scarlet thread of bastardy which Dr. Ruth Reed of Indiana University has been unraveling for three years. Last week she reached a point where she could tell the metropolis just what sort of women bear bastards...
Exuberantly the Committee set out to produce a plan which in grandeur and sweep should be worthy of its subject. Power, navigation, flood control, low-water control, erosion control, water supply, sanitation, irrigation, industry, commerce, water storage, forestry, recreation, wildlife conservation and employment were woven into "a pattern on which are dependent the lives and happiness of millions now living and millions still to be born." Chief components...
When 1 wish to dress up around the mills and wear a coat it is not of 1917 vintage, as you report, but was made in 1921. The straw-woven shoes are now no more, as at least a dozen old friends read your report and have supplied me with new pairs. The $20,000,000 with which I am credited is entirely a myth but since your article appeared I have received wires and letters from acquaintances of years gone by requesting immediate loans. I believe I am also safe in stating that I have been given the opportunity...
...Harvard's opponents this fall, and one which is reckoned as one of the strongest by some of the insiders-- namely Dartmouth--has made a notable change in its football uniform. Instead of the usual brown silk pants with the woven sections for ease of movement, the Big Green will sport a pair of breeches made of silk, aluminum-colored airplane cloth...
...following bulletin to the Cotton-Textile Institute's New York headquarters : "Our mills will continue to operate indefinitely. They are now barricaded and ready for a state of siege." That mill-owner was a thickset, thick-spectacled young man worth about $20,000,000, who habitually wears straw-woven slippers and a beltless Norfolk jacket of 1917 vintage. His name is Elliott White Springs...