Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welcome his departure do so only because if he stays they see no way of: 1) altering NRA policies; 2) changing NRA from a melodrama starring Hugh S. Johnson to a businesslike administration of recovery measures. Last week it was learned that the President had. as a reward of merit, raised the salary of the General from $6,800 to $15,000?equal to that of the Vice President, the Speaker, members of the Cabinet...
...Degree-holders may take more advanced courses, work independently under a tutor, write a thesis. All students will study their subject at first hand in Government offices, Supreme Court, House & Senate galleries. Tuition: $150 per semester. Upon graduation will come the real work of finding a Government job on merit rather than political pull...
...witty, handsome and preposterous adaptation of Edwin Justus Mayer's play, The Firebrand, The Affairs of Cellini would be a notable comedy if its only merit were Frank Morgan's performance as the Duke. Befuddled, stuttering, overcome by terror of his wife and incorrigibly concupiscent, Alessandro throughout The Affairs of Cellini never quite succeeds in finishing a single sentence...
...trade, Maupassant and Chekhov. Maupassant, says Author Maugham, was his early model. "Maupassant's stories are good stories. The anecdote is interesting apart from the narration so that it would secure attention if it were told over the dinner-table; and that seems to me a very great merit indeed. ... I have little doubt that Chekhov would have written stories with an ingenious, original and striking plot if he had been able to think of them." But Maugham gives Chekhov his due: "I do not know that anyone . . . has so poignantly been able to represent spirit communing with spirit...
Awarded. To Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy: Spain's Grand Cross of Naval Merit; in Madrid...