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That NYA had made any appreciable dent on the problems besetting the nation's 2,500,000 young unemployed did not appear from its first year's record. Resorting to meagre handouts, Director Williams had used most of his appropriation to pay a maximum $8 monthly to 166,000 high-school students, a maximum $15 monthly to 119,000 college students, which they earned by working under the direction of their school authorities, spent largely on lunches, carfare, cigarets, clothing. Less than a fourth of the applications could be filled. For youth not in school...
While the divergence in these figures might be explained in part by increased business efficiency, they did not indicate that U. S. industry was making any sizable dent on unemployment or that relief expenditures would be soon reduced. With such fundamentals as these on their desks once more, U. S. businessmen began their reappraisal...
...great pleasure and privilege to pass this wisdom on to our readers, many of whom are, have been, or will be, business men. If all Harvard and Yale men realize their responsibilities, quite a dent will be made in the reactionary, anti-social, Tory attitude which sends Business into orgies and headaches...
Last week the assembled millionaires were greeted officially by Founder-Presi-dent Clayton Sedgwick Cooper but the bill for the banquet at Boston's Hotel Copley-Plaza was footed by the Committee's New England members, including Speculator William ("Big Bad Bill") Danforth; Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, Hetty Green's son; Vice President & Treasurer Charles G. Bancroft of United Shoe Machinery; J. A. Turrell, retired Woolworth executive. One day some of the members went to Leslie Buswell's home in Gloucester, Mass., then for luncheon at the nearby showplace of John Hays Hammond...
...Fletcher and Charley Kollinites, the Crimson's stellar guards who have been bearing the brunt of both attack and defense since bad luck jumped up and bit the Feslermen some weeks ago. Hopes are entertained that Jack Mason, Sophomore forward who has shown notable improvement, will be able to dent the Gothamite's iron-clad defense for some few tallies...