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...became vice chairman of the National Committee in charge of women's activities.* Salary of her new job will be $8,000 a year, minus the 15% cut ordered by the President for all government employes. She will supervise all three U. S. mints, seven assay offices, issue a quarterly estimate for the Customs Service of the value of foreign coins. The man whom she relieves, Robert J. Grant, had held the job since 1923. He will sail for Shanghai, become mint adviser to the Chinese Nationalist Government...
...Ingestrie (W. McM. Heyl '33) is the sailor lad in love with demure Johanna Oakley (C. J. Fleming '33). It is Mark's pearls which arouse the avarice of the Fleet Street razor wielder and finally bring about his apparent demise via his own unholy chair. The Playgoer cannot assay to conduct his readers through the plot of a Victorian melodrama, but they may rest assured that there is action and bloodshed galore...
...working night & day the Treasury examiners completed their assay of the solvency (or lack of it) of Reserve member banks, thus paving the way for Secretary Woodin to issue opening licenses. Banks were staggered for opening on the first three days of the week: Monday, 100% sound banks in Federal Reserve cities;* Tuesday, banks in the 250 urban centres with clearing houses; Wednesday, rural banks...
Student guidance, vocational suggestion, and consultation on careers are no new things in American colleges. But perhaps in interesting assay is the method of direction employed at Purdue University by Mr. J. E. Walters, Director of Personnel. His aim is not primarily to at square pegs into round holes, but to enable students to develop their personalities while in college, so as not to emerge as misfits to the detriment of themselves or their future employers...
While the Assay Office keeps gold & silver, its main business is to test coins and bullion, analyze ore samples for all-comers at a small fee. It is run as a department of the Mint, with headquarters in Manhattan, branches in New Orleans, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Boise, Helena, Carson and Deadwood. Once a year, in the presence of the Director of the Mint, the Assay Commission meets to test samples of U. S. coins. One gold piece out of 1,000 and one silver coin out of 2,000 are selected at random. All incoming foreign coins and bullion...