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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Written more for readers with only a general knowledge of the cloudy field of economic terminology and theory than for the examination of critical colleagues, 'Professor Rogers' book is quite free from befuddling ramifications so characteristic of academic economic treatises. The language is simple, and the analysis of questions under consideration is comprehensible. Added to his simplicity of treatment, Professor Rogers has livened up the book with numerous quotations from public figures to illustrate popular attitudes towards the problems he is discussing...
...free, public illustrated lecture on "Early Painted Italian Crosses" will be given this afternoon by Mme. Evolyn Sandburg Vavala, of Florence, Italy, at the Fogg Art Museum, at 5 o'clock...
...General savings in gas consumption and in wear & tear are promised from the overdrive, an automatic super-high gear that engages somewhere between 23 and 35 m. p. h., cutting the motor speed down almost to that of the drive shaft. Not the same as freewheeling, the overdrive provides free-rolling efficiency while still retaining the braking power of the engine; is conceded wider favor than free-wheeling since it requires no manual operation...
...classes for Fair attendants in "pleasing and effective speech." His aim: "It is not our purpose to make orators of these people, but rather to teach all who shall have a share in publicizing the World's Fair to speak effectively in language as nearly as possible free from defects...
...legalize birth control in the U. S. Most of the public highlights of her story-Congressional lobbying, duels with the Catholic Church, her sensational visit to Japan in 1922, a whirlwind missionary tour of India-are well known. But her beginnings-as the sixth of eleven children of a free-thinking tombstone carver in Corning, N. Y., as a nurse on Manhattan's lower East Side, and as a central member of the group of famous pre-War radicals which included Walter Lippmann, John Reed, Big Bill Haywood, Mabel Dodge-make the best reading...