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...other consideration dampened Congressional ardor for legislation like the Celler Bill. N. A. B.'s President Mark Foster Ethridge acutely observed that the State Department would find it easier to explain embarrassing statements on international broadcasts if private broadcasters made them than if they were aired over a Government-owned-&-operated station...
Proudest achievement of the socialist-minded Mexican Government is its school system. In 1910 Mexico had only 600 State-supported schools and 70% of its citizens were illiterate. But the post-revolution constitution of 1917 decreed free, secular education for all. By 1921 President Obregón began to send missionaries into the rural districts to establish secular schools. A constitutional amendment in 1934 gave the Government control of all primary and secondary education, directed that it should be socialistic. Today, despite the bitter opposition of the Roman Catholic Church to the new educational plan, Mexico has some...
Died. William Childs, 72, co-founder (with his late brother, Samuel) of Childs Restaurants; of a heart attack; in Bernardsville, N. J. A strict vegetarian, he was ousted from the management of his restaurants in 1929 by carnivorous majority stockholders, returned to his first and favorite occupation, farming...
Last week, for showing this old rabble-rouser at his East Orange, N. J. cinema theatre, retired big-league Baseball Pitcher Adolph J. ("Otto") Rettig faced the possibility of three years in jail, a fine of $5,000. The complaint: violation of a State statute, passed in 1935 to curb Nazi activity, forbidding any representation that "incites, counsels, promotes, advocates or symbolizes hatred, violence or hostility against any group of persons by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship." The complainants: representatives of some 5,000 East Orange Negroes...
Ludlum Steel Co. of Watervliet, N. Y. had a better Depression record than most of the big, less-specialized steelmakers; last year it had net sales of $13,000,000, greatest in its 40-year history. With negligible facilities for producing flat-rolled steel, Ludlum sells about 50% of its output (wire, bars, etc.) to the automobile industry, the rest to manufacturers of machine tools, oil refining and aircraft equipment, stainless steel building products. Last year the company considered raising money to expand; but the capital market was so stagnant that directors, fearing the plan might miscarry, called...