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...silicosis hazards." When the inquest was petering out for lack of wind last week young Senator Rush Dew Holt of West Virginia appeared before the House Committee with a commonsense statement: "This was and is American industry's 'Black Hole of Calcutta.' I have had first-hand knowledge of it for several years-despite a combine of big-business silence. Unhappily, nothing can be done now. The disease is regarded as incurable. But surely the fullest light should be thrown on this tragedy so that we may have some assurance its like will never come again...
...financial editor is Alexander Dana Noyes. His job, however, does not give him his unchallenged position as dean of financial writers. In years, as in wisdom, he stands apart from and above his colleagues. Born the year that Farragut took New Orleans, he learned about the Panic of 1873 first-hand from his merchant father. He was only a year out of Amherst and just breaking in as a Wall Street cub when the Panic of 1884 struck. By the Panic of 1893 he had been financial editor of the old New York Evening Post for two years. Under...
...Roosevelt has explained them. She has arranged to write for United Features, beginning with the New Year, a feature called "My Day" in which she will report her daily doings "serious or humorous, important or trivial." Last week she undertook to give her female Press conference a first-hand view of living conditions in the White House by escorting newswomen through the service quarters, rebuilt as a WPA project last summer. The tour took nearly an hour. Proudly exhibited were: 1) the servants' dining room, radiant in white and pale green, containing a long table set with 14 places...
...book is a throwback, impoverished into sympathy for her Red neighbors.) Marching! Marching! obeys the law of Marxian fiction in having no hero but half-a-dozen protagonists, each symbolizing some aspect of the proletarian struggle. In spite of her ancestry and her creed, Clara Weatherwax writes first-rate, first-hand U.S. prose that will remind more than one reader of Dos Passes. Her propaganda will propagate few proselytes, but her winged words should strike home to even a carapacic conservative...
...much higher tone among those in our public service than there is today" represents the same creative attitude that initiated the "Dartmouth in Politics" drive two years ago and the Class of '26 fellowship this fall providing $1500 annually to "a member of the senior class for the first-hand study of public affairs in Washington...