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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taking Senator Borah's attitude of mind towards the deaf and dumb as an index of official Washington, we can well understand why Gallaudet College government supported institution of the higher education of the deaf and dumb, is repeatedly denied the financial support of the government adequate to its sore needs. Even our great national leaders cannot get away from the fallacious conception of the deaf and dumb as social nonentities. . . . They apparently cling to the superstition that the deaf and dumb are inarticulate humans, eking out a miserable existence selling lead pencils on the street corners; or worse...
...said he felt quite well, thank you. The War Department was not so sure. It was said the War Department was anxious to be rid of him because he had agitated for higher rank for his comrades in arms and prayer (TIME. Oct. 17). Upon this the War Department did not comment but ordered him to Walter Reed Hospital for examination. He went unwillingly-and last week Col. John T. Axton, Chief of Army Chaplains, was retired as of next April. Secretary of War Davis wrote him a letter expressing regret that he had been found "physically incapacitated for active...
...part of the younger, less responsible members of the Library staff, the same criticism cannot be applied to Widener's workers as a whole. In the Library, like in a good many other places, a customer is apt to receive an ascending amount of attention and interest the higher he seeks it, and Mr. Lane's letter is but another proof that those in charge of Widener are willing to go out of their way in helping the members of the University...
...consider it a great compliment the President of the United States has paid me. I hope he will never regret the confidence he has placed in me." When asked to what he attributed his rise from bank messenger to Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis and higher, during 27 years, he had answered laconically: "Observation and hard work." That was platitudinous...
...living standards remained higher "than anywhere else in the world or than any other time in world history." The wages of those who worked averaged $1,280 for the year 1925, most recent year for which authentic figures are available...