Word: hob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saddest educator was white-haired Dr. Stephen Duggan, director of the Institute of International Education, founded in 1919 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to promote world good will by international exchange of university students. Dr. Duggan expected the war to play hob with the education of 8,000 U. S. students abroad, 7,500 foreign students in the U. S. Sadly he announced that his Institute had had to cancel the fellowships of 300 U. S. scholars due to go to Europe this fall. As he prepared to send 100 others to Canada, South America...
Auto manufacturers saw more trouble ahead: 19 other States with chain-store taxes may take the cue from Colorado and submit their own bills for license fees. If such taxes can be made to stick they will play hob with the entire system of automobile distribution, not to mention other articles similarly merchandised...
...good. Probable gross: slightly better than 1938's $40,000,000. Pressing problems for this year are a shortage of dills (a reaction from last year's overselling of the dill market) and a dearth of one-bite pickles. Last year's summer rains played hob with this year's little fellows. Cucumbers grew overnight from midgets to larger sizes before they could be picked. This year's prospects (for next year's pickles) are better...
...Alabama the Presidential special pulled up while Franklin Roosevelt devoted his attention to Southern Negroes, who usually can't vote but have enfranchised Northern brothers who could play hob next year by swinging back to the Republican Party. At famed Tuskegee Institute (for Negroes) he locked arms with its distinguished, white-wooled Agricultural Chemist George Washington Carver (see cut), called the students "my boy and girl friends...
...Temporary Student Employment Plan receives its meaning and value from the principle that, among financially embarrassed students, not only luminaries, but also scholars with a duller but persistent glow will be allowed to tap the streams of knowledge. Thus, while scholarships at Harvard hob-nob only with the Dean's List, T.S.E. jobs reach down to Group V. Granted the validity of this principle, it follows logically that the Temporary Student Employment Plan must be granted its rightful nook in the sun of the University budget...