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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keynoter was the association's retiring president, Budget Director Arthur C. Meyers of St. Louis (Aa), who said: "The main factor that makes the problem of Relief, unemployment, taxation and debt so difficult is the lack of cooperation between the different levels of government." On behalf of the lowest governmental level, Budgeteer Meyers complained that city Relief bills are uncertain because WPA does not distinguish consistently between employables and unemployables. For Depression II he suggested a long-range program "by all levels of government, business, labor and industry." Main proposal: higher share to cities on State taxes on liquor...
Hopeh Province twinkled with guerrillas. In Shantung Province, where about 160,000 guerrillas and remnants of the Chinese regulars operate, the map showed a whole constellation. Most harried Japanese-occupied province of all was Shansi, where 40 divisions of Chinese troops, mostly Communist, totaling 240,000 made life difficult for the Japanese soldier. No part of the occupied area was without its star clusters...
...cell division, increases the number and strength of the offspring, promotes growth. Lack of this vitamin results in malnutrition of the embryo and abortion in the female, destruction of germ cells in the male, muscular paralysis in the young. Isolation of Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol) from natural oils is difficult and expensive, but last winter Chemist Paul Karrer of Switzerland synthesized it from coal tar. Dr. Evans promptly fed alpha tocopherol to sterile rats, and this week he told the International Physiological Congress at Zurich, Switzerland, that all 200 of the rats gave birth to average-sized litters. Synthetic Vitamin...
...present dispute promises to be more difficult because both sides are obstinately entrenched, management insisting that the roads cannot continue in business without reducing wage costs, labor relying on the Administration's oft-reiterated stand that cutting wages is against the best interests of the U. S. Messrs. Leiserson, Beyer and Cook last week hoped to settle the wrangle, but most observers guessed that the case would progress to the final stage provided by the Railway Labor Act-either appointment of an emergency investigating board by the President or arbitration by a group jointly appointed by the opposing sides...
...Great and John Stuart Mill, but Partner Collis Huntington described him tersely as "a damned old fool." His profound thought before he answered a question made people look upon him as a thinker, until they discovered that it took him as long to answer a simple question as a difficult one. Governor of California when the Central Pacific was started, Stanford loved the limelight as much as Huntington hated it, loved display, testimonials, speeches, luxury, built so many homes and farms that his vast estate was finally in danger. He planned Stanford University as a memorial for his son, died...