Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have written this because it has been a confidential matter between Mr. Coryell and myself (I fear he will not like my doing it) but already there has crept into the newspapers some word of what he has been doing for his alma mater and I think it is better to give you the facts correctly than have them possibly seep into your office somewhat distorted. N. C. ABBOTT Superintendent...
...were going forth to reconquer the Holy Land for Christianity. Like their elders few of them ever returned. Where the army of German children went no man ever knew. All that they left behind was the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Where the French children went is better known. Many of them were kidnapped, sold to slavery in Egypt. Never until last week had the U. S. seen a juvenile mass migration comparable to the famed Children's Crusade of the 13th Century...
...significant thing is that the Kremlin's apparently frenzied efforts to arrest the decline by wholesale dismissals of executives and engineers, setting the whole population on a hunt for 'Trotskyists,' is making matters worse instead of better. . . . Now it becomes evident that many past figures of industrial output were false because executives, under pressure from the Kremlin to fulfill their plans, simply faked them...
Proportionally better attended than President Roosevelt's weekend party at the Jefferson Islands Club (see p. 7) was the annual commencement of the J. Russell Young School of Expression this week in Washington. This school has no endowment, no buildings, but claims the White House grounds for its campus. Its function is to spot notable feats of word-spouting and to reward them with 50? diplomas, all "Doctor of Oratory,'' all cum laude or better. Its ceremonial dinner at the Mayflower Hotel brought 125 acceptances out of 130 invitations issued to Washington correspondents, three Cabinet members...
...sustaining" (non-sponsored) and of widely varying quality. When schoolmen and radiomen met last year at the call of the U. S. Office of Education and the Federal Communications Commission for a conference on educational broadcasting in Washington, upshot was that educators wanted more radio time, networks wanted better programs. This week Counsellor Angell will sit down with Lenox Lohr to learn about his new job which starts in September, and to which he will bring the administrative experience not only of a University president but of a onetime (1920-21) president of the Carnegie Corporation. For his services Counsellor...