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Does not this scheme amount, in the last analysis, to a suggestion that examinations as such be scrapped? The English examination, although it requires a certain amount of preparation, demands, above all, a natural ability, parallel in many ways to that required by the scholastic aptitude test. Why have any...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/12/1934 | See Source »

Retorted a thoroughly vexed New York Health Commissioner: "A hopeful view of relief from this dangerous malady might be more welcome to the half million persons in the United States who acquire this disease each year than the veiled obscenity permitted by Columbia in the vaudeville acts of certain of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Syphilis & Radio | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Perhaps it might seem too much to assign to the Committee the burden of an entire policy, yet, in selecting a coach, it will be committing itself to a definite stand on this fundamental issue. In choosing the man it will be choosing the policy. For he who comes to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IS IT A GAME OR AN INDUSTRY? | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

More significant than local tussles were results in three state-wide campaigns. By only a slim margin Oregon rejected a proposition backed by the Grange to put the State into the power business. In Washington voters approved (2-to-1) the Bone Power Bill which authorizes municipalities to acquire power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Public over Private | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

The city-owned Cincinnati Southern, a 338-mi. road between Cincinnati and Chattanooga, has returned to the city nearly $65,000,000 in revenue since its completion in 1879. Its cost: $30,000,000. Optimistically the city last week began negotiations to acquire the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth Railroad.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Profit & Loss | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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