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...York City's school system, with 1,110,000 pupils and 38,000 teachers, is the largest in the world. Its teachers are the best paid.* It has the biggest, most expensive school buildings. It also has some 20,000 habitual truants, turns out swarms of young criminals. Until a few years ago nearly one-third of its pupils were retarded, barking their shins against its iron, assembly-line curriculum...
...grew up in Canada where his father was president of Dominion Iron & Steel Co. He graduated from Loyola, flunked out of Cornell Law, sold real estate, took a crack at investment banking and in 1923 went into the brokerage business for himself. Presently Shields & Co. was one of the largest wire houses in Wall Street with offices in 16 U. S. cities, four abroad. Paul Shields became something of a yachtsman and golfer, and his step-daughter married Gary Cooper, but reform in Wall Street remained his chief interest...
...balances of $245,562,000 belonging to customers. After sampling 60 presumably representative firms with aggregate free customers' balances of $51,349,000, Exchange accountants last week confirmed Mr. Simmons' assertion. The Exchange discovered a general disregard of a joint opinion of seven law firms representing the largest brokerage firms on the Exchange. This opinion, written in 1934 as an aftermath of the Banking Act of 1933 which divorced deposit banking from underwriting and brokerage, held that brokerage firms could legally keep their huge customers' balances so long as they segregated them in such a way that...
Nina, Anthony and Socrates were three of the 879 students of Manhattan's Music School Settlement, largest and second oldest-institution of its kind in the U. S. * The occasion: The Music School Settlement's annual uptown concert. But few of the children who performed at last week's concert are likely to become ambition-mad prodigies or struggling virtuosos. They are more likely to become mothers and fathers, sober citizens whose lives have been made more interesting through the study of music. For Manhattan's Music School Settlement, like Greater New York...
PHILADELPHIA -- Pennsylvania's turbulent primary campaign drew to a close tonight with John L. Lowis' bid for political control of the nation's second largest state the major issue in a bitter race which shattered the Pennsylvania. New Deal front, Licut, Gov. Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mino Workers of America, CIO cradle and source of Lowis' financial strength in last summer's battle against "Little Steel," tonight predicted a 100,000 vote victory margin for his CIO state in Tuesday's primary...