Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Made Nation-wide in Scope...
...convinced that the records of the Prize Scholars in college prove that men of sufficient ability can be selected from secondary schools. He feels also that the present condition of affairs is no more than a beginning, declaring, "a very large number of promising young men throughout the nation are ready to apply for such scholarships, once they are established on a country-wide basis . . . with adequate care it is possible to select the best material...
...escape labelling and the halls of Congress ring with cheers for their agents. The reason, of course, lies in their compact organization and vote-control. They come, not as petitioners with a legitimate interest to defend, but as tyrannical over-lords, to demand, and receive, great portions of the nation's substance. But when Congress kowtows to orders from bonus headquarters, the public should at least be spared the hypocritical mouthings of one senator whose conscience, said he, impelled him to vote for overriding the veto...
...syphilis and gonorrhea attracted 2,500 social sanitarians to Manhattan last week. Significantly they ignored morals, invoked statistics and publicity as their best weapons against the nation's venereal disease problem. As a result of open discussion, members of the American Social Hygiene Association hope that syphilitics and gonorrheics will cease to hide from doctors, will have themselves healed either privately or at free public clinics. Last week 577 communities had 827 such free clinics...
...Orville ("Bill") Douglas, 37, as brilliant a professor as the New Deal has attracted to Washington. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, who tried to buy him away from the Yale Law School with a salary of some $20,000, declared that Bill Douglas was the nation's "outstanding professor...