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...President has attacked Depression, the housing sector has been the scene of fewest victories, most defeats. Impressive headlines have heralded impressive programs which have quickly petered out in obscure failure. Congress has passed laws and the Treasury has passed out millions but the heavy industries have continued to lag and the jobless have waited in vain for the "Roosevelt Building Boom." It is not the habit of the Administration to acknowledge a violent shift in basic policy but last week certain things were said and done in Washington which made it quite plain that the Government's housing program...
When so great an institution as Vassar discards the last of its compulsory courses as it has done, public education should not lag. The trend towards excellence in the best skills and arts and sciences cannot be ignored. Boston Traveler...
Some of the teachers wondered if they would ever get their back pay. The years had passed and one-third of them had grown old and died. But last week brought a payday. That was in Catamarca, Argentina. Not the amount of arrears ($90,000) but the time-lag made news. The Government ordered 15% of all revenue earmarked for them and the teachers of Catamarca began collecting their salaries...
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...Germanic Museum to obtain a little more polish for their cultural veneer, gape dumbly at the exhibit there now on display. So foreign to them is a spirit better constituted to create than to jape, to judge, not jape, to direct, not to drift, to lead, not to lag, that they apprehend only their own failure to understand the inspiring evidence of the German spirit placed before them...