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Sabra Holbrook, who went to Vassar ('34), believes that children should be heard. A young Boston social worker, she teamed up two and a half years ago with Byrnes MacDonald, onetime head of New York City's Crime Prevention Bureau and son of famed Utilitarian and Papal Marquis George MacDonald, to start Youth-builders, Inc. Its purpose: "to educate children for responsible citizenship in a democracy." From lecturing to children at school assemblies, Sabra Holbrook learned that they wanted a chance to talk themselves...
After U. S. troops had returned from World War I, Webb Miller stayed behind as chief of U. P.'s Paris bureau. At the Cannes Conference in 1922 he met a stubby reporter for Milan's Popolo d'Italia...
...That U. S. correspondents on the scene in Germany thoroughly-distrust the news releases of the official press bureau (Dr. Goebbels); that all such correspondents, when they get out, give much more unfavorable accounts of economic and social conditions in Germany than the cables generally carry. - That U. S. correspondents in France have been able to learn virtually nothing...
...arguments for making CAA once more a part of the Department of Commerce are chiefly that: 1) it will get rid of one more independent bureau; 2) the Department of Commerce is different now -Uncle Danny Roper is gone and the Under Secretary of Commerce is able Edward John Noble, CAA's first chairman; 3) CAA's own internal checks and balances have resulted in continual quarrels and minor complaints vexing to the President. To make the Department of Commerce seem more attractive, the President last week announced that he expected to appoint CAA's present head...
...Figures of the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that in 1939 there was an increase of 8,664,000 "man-days of idleness" over 1938's total as a result of strikes and lockouts, but 159 fewer strikes than in 1938. (Big reason: the strikes in the bituminous coal industry, WPA and Chrysler Corp...