Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Continually badgered by progressive educators for its cautious, antique ways is the College Entrance Examination Board (TIME, Jan. 25 et ante). This organization, which tests the fitness of some 12,000 youngsters every year to enter high-ranking U. S. universities and colleges, is so crusty that its brownstone Manhattan headquarters does not list a telephone. Last week the Board's new Secretary. Columbia Mathematician George Walker Mullins, who succeeded 71-year-old Thomas Scott Fiske three months ago (TIME, Nov. 2), renovated his hoary service in two ways...
...Chamber of Commerce sat down to compose as grave a memorandum of censure as Press and Radio ever received from a responsible U. S. body. Grievance of the Tacoma businessmen was the handling by newsgatherers for ink & air of the kidnap-murder of 10-year-old Charles Mattson (TIME, Jan. 18). Sternly the Chamber of Commerce members agreed that newsmen had made "gross mistakes that many people believe may have prevented the return of this child, unharmed," listed what they thought were some of the worst errors...
...balmy weather which had ruined half the winter for more than 70,000 ski addicts on the Eastern seaboard, forced cancellation of snow trains, hit the purses of hundreds of winter inn-owners throughout the White, Green, and Adirondack Mountains. Even the world snowshoe championships at Ottawa Jan. 30 had to be run on snowless ground. Dartmouth feared it would have to import snow for its ski-jumping. But oldsters could remember no year in which snow did not finally fall in time for the Dartmouth Carnival and sure enough, on January's last day, their faith was rewarded...
...latest winner of its most important prize-the Harmon National Trophy for the year's outstanding feat in aviation. In the past it has been won by Flyers Post, Musick, Earhart. Winner for 1936: Millionaire Howard Hughes, for setting the transcontinental record which he broke fortnight ago (TIME, Jan...
...estimated $500,000,000, an amount, in the opinion of Mr. Eccles, "ample to finance further recovery and to maintain easy money conditions." Since the Treasury is now "sterilizing" gold imports by putting them in cold storage instead of letting them seep into the credit system (TIME, Jan. 4), the threat of a further expansion in excess reserves has been largely removed. And with the present total shaved to a figure within the reach of the standard tools of credit control-the rediscount rate and open market operations in government bonds-Chairman Eccles is now battened down for a boom...