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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their scholastic requirements and standards. The result is that many institutions practically guarantee a degree to any student who can pay four years tuition. Thus students, who can pay the price, go to college because it is the thing to do, or because it seems to hold the key to financial success in later life, and they spend four aimless years wasting their own and the college's time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW DEAL | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

...0nly the words of the Star-Spangled Banner were written by Francis Scott Key. The tune had its origin in 18th-Century England as the gusty club song of London's Anacreontic Society, is believed to have been written by one John Stafford Smith, the society's organist. The original words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Squeakless Anthem | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...Locker Key...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE NEWS IN OFFER MANY "LOST AND FOUNDS" | 2/2/1938 | See Source »

...Public Lands Committee was shocked and delighted. Senator Key Pittman reflected: "An instance of this kind is so extraordinary . . . very serious matter . . . I can't see how. . . ." The reason the imaginary employes were not discovered sooner, according to Interior Department investigators, was that the Park Service, short of real employes, was several months behind in its books. The dream camp was finally found, Mr. Burlew revealed modestly, when Reno Stitely, grown devil-may-care, put his imaginary men on actual rolls paid by the Interior Department. The special investigators who finally caught Reno Stitely told the committee that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Clerical Imagination | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Ayres-Three weeks ago Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, much-touted economist of Cleveland Trust Co., told a convention of his fellows at Atlantic City that the "key log" of the economic jam was the public utility situation (TIME, Jan. 10). Other reasons for the present depression, continued Economist Ayres, which he last week gave Senator Byrnes, included excessive inventories last spring, rising prices due to rearmament programs abroad, fears of labor difficulties, possibly the bonus payment in 1936, possibly some fear of inflation. Mr. Ayres's predictions: that the depression should reach bottom in the first half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hindsight | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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