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...chairman is seldom able to round up his entire board, even for one session a year, to meet the whole staff of a department. When the few who are able to come, finally do so, the work accomplished is generally of the philanthropic variety. Each instructor has a list of needs, ranging from office typewriters to personal paper clips...
...Hancock County, where Mr. Blackton says he was shaken down for $8.05, a county tax of 3? per gallon is imposed upon gasoline. In only a few States are county gasoline taxes imposed, but Hancock County is at the top of the list with one of the highest taxes of its kind in the U. S. To make matters worse, the county does not use its gasoline-tax receipts for road building, but devotes them to miscellaneous purposes. The Mississippi State tax is 6? per gallon, although most State taxes are only 3 ?or 4? per gallon...
Guarded like a state secret, the annual Pulitzer Prize awards for distinction in U. S. letters and journalism were revealed this week when Columbia University's dignified old President Nicholas Murray Butler portentously puffed to his feet at a Manhattan banquet and read off the list of winners chosen by the advisory board of Columbia's School of Journalism. The awards...
...picture painted for the 15,000,000 current U. S. investors by Author Reis is as disheartening as that which a 1933 book 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs painted for purchasers of a long list of U. S. advertised products. Mr. Reis's basic point is that, though the public assumes the New Deal has made U. S. banking and finance safe for the small investor, nothing of the sort has yet taken place. After long, sorry rehearsals of fiscal crimes committed "rider the Old Deal, he delivers this warning cry: "It is imperative that the investor rid himself...
...SOVIETS-Albert Rhys Williams- Harcourt, Brace ($3). To 88 most mauled questions on Soviet Russia, this 554-page volume supplies "constructive" ready answers, condensed biographies of Lenin and Stalin, an impartial reading list of 450 books in English...