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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winner of first honorable mention was John T. Hack '35, and Elbert P. Little '34, and Willis A. Boughton '07, assistant director of the chemical laboratories, also received honorable mention. The exhibit will be open evenings from 7 to 10 o'clock for the remainder of the week in Adams...
Sirs: While the papers played up Mrs. Roosevelt's speech at the recent newspapermen's meeting TIME in its report on that meeting (TIME May 7) made no mention of it at all Good for TIME. "Most women know all there is to be known about cakes and pies and children," said Mrs. Roosevelt. "What they want is the real facts about all phases of life today." I strenuously disagree. It seems to me that modern women who go in for "all phases of life day must necessarily neglect the care of their children and the management...
Sirs: The article "Fat & Drugs" under "Medicine in your issue of April 30 was excellent. Particularly interesting to your readers must be the composition of the so-called obesity cures. You failed to mention one of the most widely advertised of these-Kruschen Salts. This was analyzed by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven some years ago I Bulletin 341. July, 1932] and was found to consist "essentially of a mixture of Epsom and Glauber salts.'' This puts it in the class with the other "cures" that work thru their laxative action. . . . HENRY S. JOHNSON...
...Cabinet. Ambassador Daniels reviewed the whole life of the Great Commoner from the "Cross of Gold'' to the evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn., told how he "made" three amendments to the Constitution: the 16th (income tax), 18th (popular election of Senators) and 18th (prohibition). At mention of the 16th everyone applauded, including the President. At mention of the 18th many a spectator looked beyond the statue to the tall tower of Christian Heurich's Brewery running full blast. Said Ambassador Daniels: "During these years men condemned him, denounced him, flouted him, despised him, cheered him, loved...
...brokerage firms but the total volume of business in the five years and eight months was approximately $292,000,000,000-a figure not far from the total national wealth. On this great turnover brokers' profits amounted to approximately three-tenths of 1%. Mr. Pecora also failed to mention the fact that State and Federal transfer taxes during the period yielded more than $360,000,000, an amount equal to about 40% of brokers' total profits. Boiling mad at Mr. Pecora's tactics, President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange roundly damned the report...