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...taking Memel, Führer Hitler reaffirmed the old principle (temporarily forgotten in Czecho-Slovakia) of bringing back all the German "children" into the Reich's fold. Once decided on, the occupation of Memel was carried out with the Führer's usual one-two-three precision...
...averaging $5000 annual earnings after five years is absurd. John R. Tunis in his survey of Harvard's class of 1911 showed that even after a quarter of a century his classmates were earning less than $5000 per man. The number of college students has increased almost six-fold since Tunis' undergraduate days: the college diploma is progressively decreasing in its power to assure large incomes...
...purely voluntary scheme, the Plan has failed because students refuse to take time off from their other college activities, curricular or extra-curricular. But it could be made to work if it were taken off a voluntary basis, if an inducement were added to lure students into its fold...
...charitable institutions and other groups that would add 6,000,000 to the board's present clientele of 42,500,000; that the board increase its subsidies to the States for dependent children and the blind. Then Chairman Altmeyer outlined his, and the White House's, three-fold plan to give more...
...Moines the Henry Wallaces were either renowned for their independence, or cussed for their stubbornness. Henry Wallace I, a Presbyterian preacher, launched Wallace's Farmer ("Good Farming. Clear Thinking. Right Living.") at the age of 60 despite the best professional opinion that it would fold in six months. In his 70s he told off Roosevelt I about Agriculture. Into his 80s, to half of Iowa, he was beloved "Uncle Henry." His son Henry Cantwell Wallace was a big, frail man who wore himself out as Harding's Secretary of Agriculture in jurisdictional disputes with Herbert Hoover...