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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inquiries display a seriousness that is impressive. In the main, they come not only from men who are qualified by experience in executive positions, but also in many cases from men lately graduated who seek this means of further training. The letters of inquiry are without exception dignified in tone and exhibit a sense that the better a man can be equipped now, the more he can do tomorrow with the equipment. The best features about them is that they show no signs of panic. They are, on the contrary, the letters of men determined to have the employment they...
...accept the League with reservations, when it was reported by Lodge, who was then head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. If Wilson had accepted these terms, the country would have joined the League with unanimity. At the period when the resolution to join the League was defeated, the main argument of its critics was that it would in time become a sort of super-state, and would take away the powers of the American Congress. Now, by one of the choice ironics of history, they think the League of Nations has not got enough power...
Ratkiller Nicholes is a small mild man of 63. His main office is in Atlanta, Ga., where his son handles his correspondence. He has been killing rats for 20 years, has operated all over the U. S. He kills rats free. Then he shows his method to his clients, sells them Nicholes Over-Nite Rat Exterminator (price, 50? a can). In this way he makes more money than if he charged for his work. He killed 49,000 rats in Chicago in 1922, gained much fame thereby. His best clients are food stores, schools, hospitals, colleges. He has killed rats...
First, in the matter of academic freedom, one must bear in mind that the City College is partly supported by the New York City government. The city's main aim in the welfare of its citizens, and it believes that such welfare is promoted by the presence of college educated men. If the City College instead of turning out useful people and good citizens becomes a center for seditious and turbulent individuals, the city authorities and taxpayers may be justified in viewing the situation with disapproval. To be sure, the professors and students should be at liberty to think what...
...main purpose of the coming gathering is to make preparations for the general meeting of the league which will take place at Smith College on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, March 9-11, 1933. Arrangements will be made for the meeting-hall, and the subjects to be discussed next March will be chosen...