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Pandora and Eve and all women will go to any lengths to get knowledge. One hundred blithe and debonair damsels from Stephens College, Missouri, are now for the first time enjoying first-hand information of this great world. Under the watchful surveillance of a dean, a nurse and a biological expert, the contingent is exploring the most tempting and interesting parts of New York. "We want the girls to have a good time, "the dean stated; while the president explained that the tour was intended to acquaint the young women with facts. The girls, under the supervision of the biological...
...shells and cartridges, is affiliated with four powder companies. President Olin hates waste and laziness, does not like to hire baseball enthusiasts or golfers. The atmosphere in the plant is friendly and open, but whenever there is an explosion (on July 10, 1923, twelve employes were killed by one) first-hand information on the cause becomes scarce...
...crowd Secretary Hurley delivered a message, explained his mission: "I bring! you the greetings and best wishes of the President of the United States. ... By his direction I have come here to secure first-hand information concerning the political, educational, social and economic conditions which now prevail in the islands. ... I shall converse with the people themselves. . . . On the facts established the Administration will base its future policy...
Because of the growing probability that the next Congress for financial reasons will vote to free the Philippines, Secretary Hurley's mission took on large political significance. His purpose will be to collect first-hand material on which President Hoover can act if & when Congress sends an independence bill to the White House. Almost certainly this material will be in the form of a veto ammunition. The Philippines Herald, nationalist sheet, sensed this when it declared: "We would wish that the purpose of this mission be one of inquiry into the necessary details of separation. Yet it might...
...commotion came word, vague at first, that President Hoover had started to Do Something about the worldwide Depression of which he had spoken so often, from which he had just again appealed in his Mid-Western speeches. For weeks he had been mulling over the situation. Germany, he knew, was in desperate straits. Ambassador Sackett had lately been home with first-hand reports and descriptions. Ambassadors Gibson and Dawes on recent White House visits had told of the bog into which Europe's economy, weighted by Germany, was sinking. Senator Morrow, just back from Germany, had brought word...