Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill to amend the Pure Food and Drug Act by requiring canned foods below a certain grade to be distinctively labeled, again rejecting theTydings amendment to prohibit insertion of deadly poi- sons in industrial alcohol. ¶ Passed a bill to establish a division of (criminal) identification & information in the Department of Justice. ¶ Passed a bill to create a Bureau of Narcotics in the Treasury Department. ¶ Adopted a joint resolution making July 5 (Saturday) a legal bank holiday in the District of Columbia for this year only. ¶ Passed a bill amending the Federal Farm Loan...
...revisers of the U. S. pharmacopoeia, reiterated to the Senate's investigating committee last week the well-known fact that Spanish ergot is better than Russian ergot. The Russian product until recent months has been wormy, lousy and rotten, due to careless handling. Only a low-grade and deleterious extract, says Dr. Rusby, can be made from it. He charged that the food, drug & insecticide administrator has been illegally admitting rotten raw ergot into the U. S. due to the blandishments of manufacturing pharmacists who claimed they could recondition the polluted raw material and make from it an efficient extract...
...week-end it was apparent that this week's rebuttal would come not only from the Federal officials accused but from manufacturing pharmacists whose good reputation was being impugned by Dean Rusby and Importer Ambruster. The direction of the manufacturers' testimony, endorsed by pharmacologists of Dean Rusby's grade, was to be: 1) that Spanish ergot is commercially better than Russian ergot because more fluid extract can be made from a given amount, 2) that Russian ergot can be and is being made into safe fluid extracts which satisfy the high standard of the U. S. pharmacopoeia, 3) that...
...Legislative Appropriation Bill, amended to provide a marble base for the Washington Statue of the late Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon. ¶ Accepted the conference report on a bill to finance Gold Star Mothers' pilgrimages (see p. 13). ¶ Adopted a resolution requiring canned products below a certain grade to be distinctively labeled...
Miserable Smart Children. How to deal with superior-minded school children is a mighty problem for mental hygienists. Dr. Leta Sletter Hollingworth of Columbia defined the smart child's plight. If he is kept in a grade with ordinary children his own age, he does his school work so swiftly that he must idle and daydream, bad habits both. If he is advanced to the grade of his intellectual equals, he is the baby of his class, kept out of games and parties, criticized by his teacher for manual and emotional immaturity. Gifted girls have the special problem of wanting...