Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nieman bequest, so far from having failed, has doubtless already begun to elevate the standards of American journalism." It has sent an important reverberation through the press of the nation, with the effect that today journalism may well become the province of highly educated men. Its effect cannot be measured solely in terms of the personal benefit derived by nine men; the Nieman Fellowships have begun to demonstrate to the American press the importance of education...
From his busy little office in Boston, salty old Porter Sargent, whose sharp eyes and ears miss very little that is written or said about U. S. education, last week issued his annual report on the state of the nation's biggest business.* Mr. Sargent, prefacing the 23rd edition of his famed handbook of private schools with a 160-page sound-off,† found the state of education more than normally alarming. During the year private schools, for example, were sharply criticized-luxurious Lawrenceville's Headmaster Allan V. Heely went so far as to call them an expensive...
...three late churches had overlapped, there would be mergers, although the Conference had warned against "hasty action for financial reasons." In truth, however, the Conference had itself performed some hasty actions for financial reasons-in order to adjourn before its Conference treasury was exhausted. In slapping together the nation's biggest Protestant church (8,000,000 members), it had settled, with a minimum of debate, matters which may need further attention at its General Conference next year...
...high standards of living. But we know too that the standard of living has a significance more profound than any mere material term would imply. ... A standard of living, based on a high level because of its spiritual as well as its material wellbeing, can never exist in a nation oppressed with fear, prejudice, racial superstition or religious persecution...
...sometimes said that the U. S. coal industry, disposed as it is to overproduce, needs a good strike about every three years. For the nation as a whole this is certainly no formula for wealth and plenty. The six-week soft-coal deadlock that ended last week caused serious and conspicuous economic damage. Retail trade in the strike area dropped 15% to 20%. Estimates of the total loss of purchasing power ran as high as $100,000,000. Though last week's settlement came in time to prevent large-scale stoppage of factories, ships or railroads, the effects...