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These "peewee" cannon are expected to revolutionize military training, for the missiles, ordinary ball bearings one inch in diameter have a maximum range of 100 yards, and firing practice can hence be held on almost any vacant lot. The guns, which are scaled approximately one to 1000, in addition to the usual traversing and elevating machanism, have telescopic sights, so that the midget objective may not be lost sight of in the vastnesses of Soldiers Field. The handling is similar to the large field pieces in all details, so that practice may be held before the trip to Camp Ethan...
...Senator Cummings used to tell us that Iowa is characterized by the highest level of general welfare of all the States of the Union. No great city there, no congestion of population; universal high living conditions, total absence of poverty, high level of educational opportunity for every child, maximum conditions of cultivation of the soil, well-to-do people everywhere. Slums or degradation nowhere. The ideal place from which to derive bright boys and girls. Whatever State is left out of Dr. Conant's scheme, one would say that it would not be Iowa...
...regulation, an unwillingness which represents a natural revulsion from the excessive regulation of the Prohibition era. In view, however, of the conditions that have prevailed during the last few months, I think that this attitude must be altered, and it must be admitted that what is needed is a maximum of stringent regulation. The ideal method, of course, would be to have the Federal government in complete control; for the machinery is ready in the form of the Code Authority, and national regulation would be both more effective and efficient than that of the states. That Mr. Roosevelt...
...transition from the highly individual classroom instruction of prep school to the personal contact afforded by the tutorial conferences, he is apt to be lost in the shuffle and consequently to have difficulty in apprehending the aims of tutorial work and the best methods for obtaining from it the maximum of value...
Bushy-maned President John Llewellyn Lewis made a graceful bow to the "partnership" between Labor, Capital and Government. He told his men that, although he would ask for a 30-hour week (coal code maximum: 40 hr.) and higher pay when new labor contracts are discussed with bituminous operators in Washington Feb. 12, the miners would be "in a mood of cooperation, conciliation and constructive contribution...