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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the standpoint of correctness in either spelling or proof reading, the word is "cames" meaning H-shaped lead strips, serving much the same purpose in stained glass fabrication as do muntins in ordinary wood or steel windows...
...Girls' Industrial School at Beloit roughly as a slum kindergarten compares to Bryn Mawr. Inmates of the N.T.S.G. were some 60 members of the U. S. capital's worst young female riffraff. Most were colored, some white. The majority were three-time offenders. Practically all had either syphilis or gonorrhea. The plant was an obsolete brick building, with badly ventilated rooms and few sanitary facilities. On the theory that the deplorable conditions at the N.T.S.G. existed partly because no one knew about them, Carrie Smith set out to make them known. Her campaign reached its peak when...
...lenient attitude toward the Church. While none of Stalin's policies is ever criticized by Pravda or Izvestia, their unavoidable coverage of basic news had made it clear last week that the recent Communist Party "purge," in which 60% of all local Communist officials in Russia were either discharged or shifted to new posts (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante), is playing into the hands of the Church. In many districts the Communist boss who has just been shifted into a region where he is a total stranger has been fairly stumped to know whom the Party should favor...
...Automobile Workers shot back: "Mr. Knudsen's preference for craft unions might be explained by the fact that industrial unions seem to be a little too effective. . . . What evidence of responsibility are employers going to show to guarantee continuity of production to protect the income for their employes? Either the manufacturers must keep their workers on the payrolls or be charged with responsibility for putting them on the relief rolls...
...biological heritage, that superior minds and superior bodies usually go together, and that "the quality of any individual mind is probably inherent and immutable." As a profound student of evolution, he knows that in so highly evolved an animal as man evolution does not stand still. The species either progresses or degenerates. Since he discerns no improvement since the end of the Glacial Period and since the signs of deterioration are already apparent to his trained eye, he concludes that the present course of man is downhill...