Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of fellowships should not be difficult, and offers the most logical solution to the problem of what use to make of this money. In the first place, fellowships are financially possible on the estimated $40,000 interest the fund will provide. At $2000 per person, this would allow twenty fellowships a year. Secondly, they would be available only for college graduates who have had the regulation background...
...conclude, while these editorials have built up and torn down many hypotheses before judging Nieman Fellowships the best alternative, it must be remembered that there is some merit in all the suggestions made, and a compromise would therefore be wise. The $40,000 per year could well allow both fellowships and prizes or perhaps a new undergraduate course or two. Certainly from this broad surface an interested and college-trained man could scrape a journalistic education far better than any one school could hope to offer. And he would come closer to fulfilling the ideals which Mrs. Nieman so nebulously...
...University has already led the way in this movement, but the time alloted by broadcasting stations to purely educational topics with no commercial tie-in is too small to allow any great scope to the University's program. In carrying on the program, undergraduate agencies are aiding in work of the greatest value, but they should proceed with caution. The name of Harvard is always included in the name of these societies, and however unofficial they may be in College life, they immediately assume an official aspect when they emerge from a loudspeaker. If undergraduates are willing to accept this...
...fitting modern freighters with automobile elevators so that U. S. cars could be exported to Europe uncrated and unscratched. So successful was this that Bernstein "floating garages'' have long carried over 60% of all U. S. automobile exports, made enough money for sole Owner Arnold Bernstein to allow him to buy out the American-Belgian-British Red Star Line and incidentally bring into Nazi Germany thousands of dollars yearly in much needed foreign exchange. Bernstein passenger agents find their boats are "very popular with intellectuals who object to the snobbishness of Cabin Class...
...people" declined to sign contracts with the AAA, or accept its benefits, although they were willing to reduce acre: age where the law required. Mennonites in industry pay Social Security taxes, but declare they will not accept Social Security pensions. Nor will they join labor unions, although they meekly allow union dues to be "checked off" their wages...