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Daily, this alphabetical society has been seeking to confound its enemies with some new morsel of statistics and research. Most of them pass over out poor undergraduate domes. But the latest and most interesting item deserves immediate pursuit by every expert in research, and all the statistics which Harvard University can muster to its defence...
Like many New Dealers Dr. Wolman is a professor, a graduate of Johns Hopkins, a teacher at Columbia, an expert on statistics. He is also a labor man. Until last year he was known in public life as the economic adviser of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. As such he supported a course largely contrary to that of the A. F. of L. He strongly advocates industrial (vertical) unions as opposed to craft (horizontal) unions of the A. F. of L. type...
Leader of the National Youth Movement is Joseph C. Fennelly, 29, native of Kansas City, educated at the University of Virginia, vice president of a paint company. Tall, slender, blond, an expert golfer, he is married, has one son. Germ of the movement was born five years ago when five young businessmen who knew nothing of government or politics sat around a fireside in Fennelly's home discussing the local situation. The young men of Cincinnati had cleaned up their city. Why could the young men of Kansas City not do the same? Then & there they decided...
When the Motion Picture Research Council was formed in 1927. its first aim was not only to set up and prove such neat generalities as the foregoing, but also to arm itself with a body of expert psychological opinion on the influence of the cinema upon minors. The Council's executive director, the Rev. William Harrison Short, got $200,000 from the Payne Fund and started hiring expert researchers. Last year the Council published its findings in a series called Motion Pictures and Youth (Macmillan), of which the 7th fat black volume appeared in November. This winter...
...product of St. Bernard's, St. Paul's and Harvard (1931), Phipps took up court-tennis in his last year at college. To become the best amateur player in the country took him less time than most men require to learn to score. An amateur bridge player, expert enough to play in professional tournaments, much too good for most of his friends at lawn tennis, he belongs to the New York Racquet Club, plays court-tennis there and at the $250,000 court which Payne Whitney built at Manhasset and on which Payne Whitney died in 1927. Ogden...