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...from political control until 1911, when an independent Board of Control was set up and a special property tax of 2? on every $100 of assessed value was levied for museum maintenance. A recurrent impulse of St. Louis city administrations is to rescind this tax. When the cat controversy brought up such a proposal, the present Board of Estimate & Apportionment promptly recommended a reduction of the tax to if per $100 and the reinvestment of museum control in City Hall. Last week the Board of Aldermen was petitioned to submit this to the people in the November elections...
...difficulties of the Scripps-Howard papers and the tightening of the Hearst chain (see below) last week brought observers to the conclusion that U. S. chain journalism had passed its zenith. When stronger papers are no longer able to absorb the losses of the weaker papers, the essential strength of a chain is lost. While still under central management, the motto of chains has become: every paper for itself...
...conceived and organized the A.R.R.L. to put such relays on a nationwide basis. In 1919, when the U. S. Government was reluctant to give up its Wartime control of radio, and later whenever commercial services tried to grab amateur wave lengths. A.R.R.L. President Maxim carried the fight to Washington, brought the amateurs back to the air, kept them there...
...since written nine (to Wife Kathleen's 60), dealing with such topical problems as education (Salt), marriage (Brass), women in business (Bread), birth control (Seed). They have brought him neither the literary reputation of his brother nor the big profits of his wife. But they have been moderately good, moderately successful, have kept him from being known as simply "Kathleen Norris' husband." Bricks Without Straw takes the topical theme of Radical Youth. Son of a strait-laced Midwest banker, likable, 20-year-old Jerry Kennedy went to Manhattan in 1904, fell in love with a beautiful music student...
...Compared with the jaundiced eyes of Lewis or the rheumy ones of Howard Spring, Author Norris' eyes seem cool-sighted. His calm view comes partly of his studied concern always to see both sides of Problems: partly, it may be due to the fact that the Norrises have brought up several nephews and nieces, kept open house for a dozen others who swarm uninhibited over the Norris ranch at the foot of the Santa Cruz mountains...