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...help Europeans, Chinese, Japanese and Indians stricken by war, famine, earthquake and leprosy Mr. Rockefeller gave about $3,000,000. The League of Nations' library at Geneva was built and stocked with 2,000,000 Rockefeller Jr. dollars. The Palestine Archeological Museum got $1,680,000. Half a million helped build the Shakespeare Memorial Foundation theatre at Stratford upon Avon. A million and a half went to Germany's Heidelberg and Göttingen Universities, London's University College, China's Lingnan University, Japan's Tsuda College. Mr. Rockefeller's biggest single foreign handout...
...vice-presidency last November, banded together seven other industrial unions* in a smaller federation of his own. As the Committee for Industrial Organization they are now out to increase their strength, prestige and combined membership of 1,300,000 with Steel's half-million workers...
...title from the article by Joseph Chamberlin Furnas on the evils of fast motoring which appeared in The Reader's Digest and has since, in a reprint by Simon & Schuster (after screen re-enactment in The March of Time for last October), reached a circulation of three million copies. It does not venture to translate into pictures much of the lusty and horrifying blood-reek of the article, but it does present, within conventional limits, an energetic little sermon on good highway manners. Lieutenant Knox (Randolph Scott), head of a police traffic department, meets Betty Winslow (Frances Drake) when...
...most extensive busline business in the U. S. which last year earned net profits of over four and one half million dollars is the (1 Northland Transportation, 2 Transcontinental, 3 Santa Fe Trail, 4 Pan-American, 5 Greyhound Corporation...
...nomination of Alfred Mossman Landon did not bring forth a boom, anti-Roosevelt Wall Street at least did honors with a respectable pop. The stockmarket managed to put on two successive million-share days before slumping back into the dullness of the past six weeks. Businessmen and brokers were pleased with, if not excited by, the G.O.P. platform. Mr. Landon's talk of gold had no market magic...