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...whole Boss Farley and Assistant Hurja keep most of the patronage where they want political strength to lie, in the hands of the Roosevelt machine. They have husbanded their power and still have some jobs on hand to give where they will do the most good in next autumn's campaign. There is a Minister to be appointed to the Irish Free State, an Enumerator of Seals for the Pribilof Islands...
...cost of $7,000, Harmodio Arias, following his trip to Washington last autumn, had an elevator installed in La Presidencia, his official residence, in anticipation of President Roosevelt's coming there to dine. Rare is the spot with which Franklin Roosevelt does not trace some family connection, and Panama proved no exception. Opening his dinner speech on the "trusteeship" of the Canal, he remarked...
...subjects. A decade ago all bars were dropped for appointees with high or preparatory school diplomas. Few years later two bars were put back: examinations in English and mathematics. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson set his seal on a new change. Beginning next autumn, appointees who have satisfactorily completed one year of study in an approved college may enter the academy without examination...
Nonetheless, convening educators last week resolved on mass demonstrations throughout the land next autumn "to impress the entrenched interests now attacking the schools." Hopefully they decided to ask the next Congress for half a billion dollars, with no strings of Federal control attached. In this resolution they were going to call attention to $2,000,000,000 Federal appropriations for Army & Navy, but War Veteran Virgil Sturgill of Ashland, Ky. objected and the comparison was struck...
...offer of a good teaching job was all that gave Henry Lester Smith to Education instead of to the clothing business when he finished college. Last month Mrs. Smith received a Ph.D. at Indiana and next autumn his daughter Martha, eldest of the Smith children, will enter the university at 16. Affable and joke-loving, N. E. A. President Smith plays an occasional round of golf but spends most of his spare time on his single hobby: World Peace through Education...