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...think that the Business Board constitutes an absolutely invaluable business experience, you are likely to be dead wrong. As an organization through which well over $100,000 is annually circulated; as an advertising medium that can, if it likes, reject advertisements, and need never to turn to that foul blot on the narrow lapel of a businessman's dignity, the 'suck ad," for sustenance--the Crimson is a king in a rainy country, a monarch inthe city of Cambridge...
...think that the Business Board constitutes an absolutely invaluable business experience, you are likely to be dead wrong. As an organization through which well over $100,000 is annually circulated; as an advertising medium that can, if it likes, reject advertisements, and need never to turn to that foul blot on the narrow lapel of a businessman's dignity, the 'suck ad," for sustenance--the Crimson is a king in a rainy country, a monarch inthe city of Cambridge...
...American Farm Bureau Federation, and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell. While the verbose Shuman found himself becoming the program's unwitting heavy as he painfully elaborated his foot-dragging conservatism, Mitchell emerged as an impassioned reformer. Extemporizing on "the shame of America" and the personal "blot on my conscience" he spoke bluntly of the power of the farm lobby and noted that what he called "the excluded Americans" had no voice in Congress, no organized force ("The soil has produced no Samuel Gompers or John L. Lewis," said Murrow). Mitchell's final vow: "As a citizen...
...Study is being conducted on two levels. All the participants will take a series of 25 "paper and pencil" tests, but a small group of 50 will take additional tests, including the Rorschach ink-blot test, and will be interviewed by King and other members of the Study staff through the year...
...used for practical microfilming. It is too hard to focus, and it must be shielded from even faint vibration by enclosing it and the object to be photographed in a heavy metal cylinder suspended by springs. If a stray speck of dust wanders onto the film it might blot out half a book...