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Last week Dr. Frederick Bertrand Robinson, slim, suave, self-assured president of huge (enrollment: 19,664) College of the City of New York, offered 200 of his would-be medical students a blunt explanation of why many of them will be turned away from medical schools. Said...
...homefolks, if they are moonstruck. Largely on this basis, Pennsylvania's Kelly proposed that RFC loan up to 50% of the property value of any business to its owners. California's Hoeppel wanted a $10,000,000,000 appropriation for "county loan agencies." More realistically, Minority Leader Bertrand Snell demanded restoration of the 15% pay cut in Federal salaries. And an echo of Hoover times sounded when Minnesota's Lundeen filed a petition to force a vote on a bill to pay the Bonus in full...
With a 199 majority in the House against them, Republican Representatives were still in no mood to give battle to the President. "Watchful waiting" was the legislative slogan of Minority Leader Bertrand Snell of New York who declared: "It would be foolish for the minority to criticize until we are acquainted with the President's program...
...attempts condensation, but otherwise little resembles TIME. A foreword to the first issue says "People want news rather than opinions. . . . We are against the barren doctrines of Socialism. Communism and class-war." In addition to news, Everyman contains a department of chatty miscellany called "This Cockeyed World," articles by Bertrand Russell, Andre Maurois, Elinor Glyn. Chief backers of Everyman are Publisher Sir John Evelyn Leslie Wrench, chairman and joint editor of the Spectator; and Philanthropist Sir Julien Cahn...
...scientists in general, their noses close to their peculiar grindstones, either have no interest in showing visitors through the mill or talk such a Hottentot lingo of pure mathematics that the plain man can make no sense of it. If it were not for such bilingual scientists as Bertrand Russell, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, J. B. S. Haldane, the flimsy bridge between modern science and modern life would be made of newspapers. Of the contemporary interpreters of science, the most lucid are Russell, Haldane and John William Navin Sullivan. Himself more of a plain man than a scientist, Interpreter Sullivan...