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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter British Columbia maintained with federal funds a few "concentration camps" for unemployed. This spring the camps were closed, the men told to care for themselves, and offered transportation home. Instead of leaving, they made common cause with British Columbia's "native" unemployed, agitated for a public works program. Their demands unheeded, late in May 1,200 men- all single-moved into three Vancouver buildings...
...labor. The Prime Minister's brave proposals come to nothing, but by the time his cabinet, his constituents, a fierce young female Marxist (Ardis Gains), and his family have indicated their more or less reluctant disapproval, audiences have been treated to a symposium so full of sparkling, perfectionist common sense that they may well forget that they have seen nothing closer to physical action than a young agitator's feeble threat to break a window...
...festivals of the International Society for Contemporary Music. The audiences (made up of composers, executant musicians, esthetes, theorists, critics, future-boosters) do not go primarily to enjoy the music, but to keep from missing something. Cheers are as scarce as hen's teeth, but hisses are as common as chickweed...
From a clear-minded Cleveland diagnostician, Dr. Edward Elbert Woldman, 41, last week came a simple method of detecting gastrointestinal lesions in from two to six hours. He dissolves a pinch of the common cathartic, phenolphthalein, in a third of an ounce of alcohol, dilutes it with two-thirds of an ounce of water, has the patient drink the mixture on an empty stomach. If the mucous lining of the intestinal tract is in the least eroded, the phenolphthalein quickly seeps into the blood stream.* The harmlessly adulterated blood in due course swishes through the kidneys, leaving a residue...
...curious mixture of the old-fashioned and modern. He calls his schools "the McGuffey type," and they reproduce as much as possible the old little red schoolhouse. No advocate of mass production in education, he likes small schools, small classes, individual instruction. But his schools have no more in common with the McGuffey type of education than the Ford has with a horse. Instead of learning from textbooks, Henry Ford's pupils learn by doing, from trips, planting, harvesting, building. Instead of confining themselves to the three Rs, his schools teach youngsters to cook, to run modern machinery. Symbolic...