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...Hoover had been swamped with economy suggestions. The Navy's proposal to lay up the U. S. S. Constitution and do away with bands and music he suspected as being designed to start a "backfire" against the White House. The idea of closing the yards at Boston and Charleston, while favored by the Navy, brought angry politicians protesting to the President. Decommissioning a large slice of the fleet to save fuel and maintenance costs was another suggestion. The Navy countered with a proposition to rotate vessels at their docks in what it called "reserve commission.'' Last week...
...accident a Manhattan physician. Dr. Lucy Du Bois Porter Sutton, 40, has discovered a quick palliative if not a certain cure for St. Vitus's Dance, hideous childhood disease. Victims twitch, quiver, quake and grimace uncouthly. The posturings resemble a grotesque dance like the oldtime "shimmy" and "Charleston." During the ignorant Middle Ages victims of the disease were taken to "dance" before images of St. Vitus, patron of comedians.* It was believed that those who danced before St. Vitus would be certain of good health during the following year. Hence the general name for the disease. The medical term...
Most newsworthy of the League's findings were figures indicating a marked disproportion between urban Negro population and unemployment. Negroes, composing 17% of Baltimore's residents, account for 31% of that city's joblessness. In Charleston, S. C., half black, seven Negroes are out of work to every three white men. Negro population and unemployment percentages in other cities: Chicago, 4% and 16%; Memphis, 38% and 75%; Philadelphia, 7% and 25%; Pittsburgh...
...Negroes relatively work more than whites (of all white males 75% are gainfully employed in normal times whereas 81% of black males have paying jobs). Two Negro women work to every white woman. Result: Negro unemployment statistics have a way of glaring out against population figures. The blacks of Charleston constitute 50% of its population but presumably they do 70% of the city's work-which is precisely their percentage in Charleston's total joblessness...
Among the awards distributed for study abroad, the following seven Dexter Scholarships, to encourage studies in England, and one Sheldon Fellowship in Economics, are included: Roger Enoch Bennett 3G, of Charleston, Ohio; John d'Auby Briscoe of Fairplay, Colorado; John Lee Brooks 3G, of Dallas, Texas; Charles Chretien 1G, of Yonkers, New York; Robert Adolph Luther Mortvedt 3G, of Joliet, Illinois; Theodore Francis Moorhouse Newton 3G, of Montreal, Canada; Hamilton Martin Smyser 5G, of Delaware, Ohio; and Noobar Retheos Danielian 3G, of Watertown...