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...Kiwanians. They went to see President Roosevelt, heard about crime from J. Edgar Hoover, listened intently to Author Will Durant (The Story of Philosophy), meditated upon a pronouncement from Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business that 75% of Government expenditures "fall within the larger definition of boon-doggling." They endorsed better housing, prevention of traffic accidents and opposition to "vicious" Communistic propaganda. For next year's president Kiwanis International named Alfred Copeland Callen, head of the mining and metallurgical engineering department at the University of Illinois...
...from the Commissariat of Justice. Comrade Andrei Philipov, Public Prosecutor of Moscow District, emitted the most startling hint. In 1930 was celebrated with great Bolshevik fanfare throughout Russia "The Decennial Anniversary of the Legalization of Abortion in the Soviet Union"-this always having been described by Communists as a boon conferred by the late great Nikolai Lenin. In Russia last week it was like the exploding of a bombshell when Prosecutor Philipov strongly intimated that under the new Bolshevik legal structure there will be "Prohibition of Abortion." Higher in the Communist hierarchy than Moscow Prosecutor .Philipov is the Public Prosecutor...
...interest rates have been a boon to financing companies, which borrow, chiefly from banks, a large part of the funds used to carry installment purchases of automobiles, radios, refrigerators, etc., etc. For this borrowed money the financing companies are now paying 1% or less. When they loan it to a time buyer, they get from 12% to 25%. That spread is by no means all clear profit, for installment paper means high overhead. Nevertheless, favored still further by a tremendous pickup in the volume of installment buying, financing companies are reporting record high earnings. Last month Commercial Investment Trust Corp...
...Kittredge can be induced from time to time to talk. Most of his students have feared his harp tongue and quick impatience. But they have respected his great learnings and gloried in his eccentricities and mannerisms. More salt of the Kittredge kind in colleg lecture halls would be a boon to American education. --New York Herald-Tribune...
...summary action taken by President Roosevelt in abandoning the Passamaquoddy tide-harnessing project and the Florida ship canal would seem to smack more strongly of political expediency than of any impelling reason for their desertion. Even though it be acknowledged that the Florida project was a flagrant instance of boon-doggling, necessitated by the need of spending so much money within a given time and within such and such a place, the "Quoddy" project has been praised by engineers and might possibly have been developed on a scale with the Boulder Dam, Grande Coulce and other highly successful New Deal...