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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan Frederick Redefer's headquarters are off Riverside Drive in a four-story brownstone building, filled with books and Progressive pupils' paintings (visible behind him on TIME'S cover). In his spare time he goes to parties, skis, plays tennis, sometimes rises at 6 a. m. to go figure-skating...
...conducted by P. E. A.'s Commission on the Relation of School and College. This is the famed "so-schools experiment," comparing achievements of boys and girls from Progressive schools, admitted to college without examination, with those of matched graduates of conventional schools. Last week Commission Chairman Wilford M. Aikin, of Ohio State, reported that by the second year of this five-year trial, Progressive students were doing a little better in marks than conventional ones, were using their college opportunities more wisely...
...industry appeared ready to resume its leadership. With automobile production for the week jumping from 45,000 to 62,000 units (88,000 year ago), President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors made front-page news across the nation and inspired a clever cartoon by announcing that G. M. was rehiring 35,000 men, restoring the 10% to 30% pay cuts of last February. This meant an annual boost to G. M.'s payroll of $55,000,000 with an other boost of $60,000,000 likely as other workers are returned to full time-no small addition...
Last week not Senator Sheppard's Committee but a Federal grand jury at Albuquerque, N. M. exposed the hottest WPA political scandal of the year. It indicted 73 people for using WPA as a political machine, giving work-relief preference to obedient voters, exacting political contributions from WPAsters by threats and intimidation, organizing WPA foremen and timekeepers into vote-compelling "social clubs," taking WPAsters off their work to pack a political parade and then falsifying the rolls to make it seem they had been working...
Crisis-Proof? From Belgrade, Yugoslavia, the Chicago Daily News's famed Balkan newspundit, M. W. Fodor, who operated in Vienna before the Anschluss, last week flashed: "German planned economics is in essence a form of socialist production and distribution. Up until the recent downfall of Czechoslovakia, the conventional capitalist system of production and distribution was never really seriously challenged outside of Russia. Completion of a successful tour of the Balkans by Dr. Walther Funk . . . signals not only the fact that Germany has finally won the World War, but also that she has delivered the most serious blow the capitalist...