Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business trip has kept me pretty constantly on the go during the past two months and interfered with my cover-to-cover reading. Nevertheless let me add my congratulations to the many I am sure you must have received on the new section Government Week under business & finance. At last I have something to turn to that will keep me posted about what's being done to us in Washington. Thanks, TIME...
...sterilized gold-gold which it will now remonetize. This will eventually give the Treasury $1,400,000,000 in cash. When this gold is spent-as gold certificates deposited to the Government's account in Federal Reserve Banks-it will add an equivalent amount to the nation's credit base. The unused part of that credit base (excess reserves) will then swell from $2,400,000,000, to which it was enlarged by lowering reserve requirements, to a record...
...TIME, March 21 I read that Superintendent Wegner [of Roslyn, L. I., whose "progressive" system of education was recently favorably reviewed by the New York State Education Department] says "in making nut bread the pupils learn to add, subtract & multiply." A similar method of education was used in England in the time of Charles Dickens. In Nicholas Nickleby, the schoolmaster, Squeers, gave the verb "weed" to be spelled, defined and conjugated by the class and then sent them out to weed the garden...
Hicks was quoted as saying that "I am a Communist. I expect to remain a Communist. But if I know my Harvard boys, my personal opinions or beliefs won't matter a bit. I might add, I never used the classroom as a propaganda agency, and I don't intend to start...
...best we have seen in lo! these many moons. The Royal Canadians are the big attraction, and rightly so. Giving generously of their wares, they occupy a very pleasant hour with some fifteen numbers including "Ten Pretty Girls," "Whistle While You Work," and "Tippy Tin." Morover, they add finishing touches to the vaudeville numbers, and, except when they enter the vocal realm, go over with a resounding bang. When the "sweetest music this side of heaven" fades away, the stage is taken over by Donald Duck, who has a hilarious time with an omniverous ostrich, and by William Powell...