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...sponsored by the American Legion whose members were willing to let the Government raise the cash by customary "sound" means, i. e. borrowing. The alternative, Patman Bill, was sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, an older, smaller organization, which in recent years has found that the most headway is gained by always outbidding the Legion by longer and more radical demands upon the Government. Hence the VFW, Patman Bill, demanded not only cash but greenbacks...
...that trade can be good without getting better. Even G. O. Pundit Mark Sullivan, noting the impressive volume of corporate refundings, declared last week: "The result is that the aorta between capital and industry has begun to function. Because the reservoirs of capital are teeming, this flow, with the headway it has now acquired, may readily swell into a great business revival...
Progressive education has never made much headway in U. S. secondary schools. Every schoolman knows why: students, teachers, principals and headmasters keep their eyes glued on the entrance requirements of the colleges. Progressive Educators saw long ago that if they wanted to do much tinkering in the secondary schools they must first make a deal with the colleges about special admissions. Three years ago they worked out a plan. They would select a few first-rate schools which were already progressive or wanted to be. Then they would persuade the colleges to waive, for five years, their usual requirements...
...Monarch of Bermuda, whirling up over the dawn-lit horizon, was most effective. She skidded up to the Morro Castle like a polo pony, wheeled and dropped four of her boats with one splash before losing headway. The Monarch, Captain Albert R. Francis commanding, picked up 71 people. With less finesse, the City of Savannah rescued 65, the Andrea S. Luckenbach 21. Also on the scene was the Dollar Liner President Cleveland. She arrived at 6:20 a. m., lowered no boats until 7:08. She resumed her voyage at 8:03 without having saved a single soul...
When the flimsy old National Labor Board under Senator Wagner made no real headway toward settling labor disputes growing out of NRA, President Roosevelt got Congress to set up a new National Labor Relations Board. Outside the jurisdiction of NRA, this new agency was empowered to make decisions and enforce them. To it the President appointed three gentlemen: Edwin Seymour Smith, onetime newshawk, who became Massachusetts Commissioner of Labor & Industries; Harry Alvin Millis, head of the University of Chicago's Economics Department; and, as chairman, an able, energetic young lawyer who happened to be the great grandson of Abolitionist William...