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...Show, instead of pleading with the public to ignore the boy and permit sanity to overcome hysteria. John Warde was offered a baseball game, instead of a job. Whatever his last thoughts may have been, it is certain he received the thrill of his unimportant lifetime to find himself in the spotlight, which is all he started out to do in the first place. Whether he jumped or fell, is immaterial now. The fact remains that he was murdered by a sensation-hungry pack of human wolves...
Education has never had an authoritative dictionary of its technical terms. Any three educators would haggle themselves silly trying to find a common 15-word definition for frontier thinkers, organismic psychology, transfer of training. Last week, at last, Phi Delta Kappa, 29-year-old professional fraternity of education, announced that it would compile from the best written sources and from the knowledge of its 23,000 members a Dictionary of Education. ΦΔΚ hopes to complete its work in about four years...
...results so far, have landed FCC in a tough spot. Under a six-month experimental license the Commission gave Powel Crosley Jr. the right to raise the broadcasting power of his Cincinnati station (WLW) from the U. S. maximum of 50,000 watts to 500,000 watts. Reason: to find out how much radio service the listener might gain (from the power boost) and lose (through interference with smaller stations). Enterprising Broadcaster Crosley spent $396,287 on his 500-kw. transmitter. When he put it into daily operation in May 1934, WLW was heard satisfactorily over 13 States and part...
Acting Secretary Brown was pleased to find that it also looked bad to the exchange representatives, who last week went home pledged to think up methods of tipping tipsters out of the commodity markets...
Martin has so many of the so-called "sterling virtues" that it is something of a surprise to find he is genuinely popular...