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...pedagogy, he wangled generous grants from the Legislature, built up a maze of specialized colleges, upped enrollment from 3,000 to 7,000. But he made one major mistake. As virtual Governor during the fatal six-month illness of Wartime Governor Ernest Lister, he started to clean up lumber camps and trod on the toes of a lumberman named Roland Hill Hartley. In 1926 Hartley was Governor and Suzzalo found himself...
With these words a Federal judge in Pittsburgh last week addressed five laborers, two clerks, two farmers, two engineers, two mechanics, a bank clerk, a writer, a lumber dealer, a carpenter, a plumber and a banker. He was instructing them in their duties as grand jurors...
...agreement to implement their Three Power Pact (TIME, March 26). Last week the experts had something to show. Austria and Italy had agreed to buy most of Hungary's surplus wheat at a fixed minimum price of 92.6? a bu.; Hungary and Italy, to buy Austria's lumber and wood-pulp; Austria and Hungary to lower tariffs 10% on any goods that pass through Italy's ports of Fiume and Trieste; Hungary to give Austria and Italy big tariff preferences...
...competition with ministers but among the unchurched. in what it calls "No Man's Land." At Ellis Island and other points of debarkation, "colporteurs" (distributors) for the Society hand tracts to immigrants in their native languages. Tracts go to the unemployed, to sailors, to inhabitants of lumber camps, CCC camps, prisons, hospitals and "religiously neglected areas . . . especially among the Mormons...
...Author's career roughly parallels that of his ''hero," but he enters the usual demurrer against jumping to conclusions. Like Bardamu, Author Destouches fought for France, was wounded, decorated with the Médaille Militaire. After a job in French Equatorial Africa as agent for a lumber company he returned to France, got his medical license, satisfied a desire to see the U. S. by working as ship's doctor on a transatlantic liner. A more serious medico than his creature, he wrote a brilliant thesis on a pioneer in obstetrics, was sent to Africa again...