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More headlines were made when Howard S. Cullman, a Roper appointee to the National Committee on Safety at Sea, got his personal pressagent to distribute a tart public letter by him on the human equation in safety at sea. Excerpt : "The general unrest in the maritime labor field is a matter of common knowledge. Conditions under which so-called able seamen and lifeboat men certificates are issued are known to make possible, if not encourage, flagrant fraud. How can we . . . hope that underpaid, overworked officers will be able to maintain real discipline...
John W. Lagsdin '37: "The Good-Neighbors Policy," by Franklin D. Roosevelt '04; Paul Killiam, Jr. '37: Excerpt from "The Magnetic Mountain," by Cecil Day-Lewis; Edward J. Duggan '37: "To the Youth of America," by Franklin D. Roosevelt '04; John A. Sullivan, Jr. '38: "The Impeachment of Warren Hastings," by Edmund Burke; Edward O. Miller '37: Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Address, by Walter Lippman...
...would prevent savings. Eager to save Coordinator Eastman's work from becoming a complete waste, President Roosevelt wrote two identical letters, one to President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads, the other to Vice Chairman J. A. Phillips of the Railway Labor Executives' Association. Excerpt...
...gulped coffee and puffed cigarets, as he tried to explain why two wooden balls dangling on wires from a bit of bent pipe should be considered art. Three days before the exhibition opened printers were waiting anxiously for the catalog of which Director Barr had composed only six pages. Excerpt...
...written while he had a bad chest cold, scrawled out with his left hand because California handshakers had disabled his right. The Hecksher Foundation for Children launched a drive for winter relief funds in New York City with a poem composed by chipper, white-bearded Philanthropist August Hecksher, 87. Excerpt: The stars, the stars shine brighter, Search thine immortal soul, Thy heart, thy heart beats lighter, What first we need is - COAL. In the weekly newspaper of Doom, The Netherlands, Wilhelm von Hohenzollern inserted an advertisement thanking the world Press for its interest in his 77th birthday...