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...theory that solving the Depression is not a one-man job, even for a Democratic President, Senator Pat Harrison. Mississippi Democrat, was inspired to bring every possible plan, program, proposal or panacea into sharp focus at the Capitol where Mr. Roosevelt could pick and choose the ones he liked best. To that end, Senator Harrison last month had the Senate pass his resolution authorizing the Finance Committee, of which he becomes chairman after March 4, "to make an investigation and study of the present economic problems of the U. S. with the particular object of obtaining the views of such...
...entirely different and should not encourage copy. The importance of this distinction is clarified by the fact that the average student in Government 1 is unequal to the opportunities which free discussion offer; almost invariably the section degenerate into a whole-handed exposition of watery opinions or into a one-man tyranny of some able talker. In either case the result is the same, and the purpose of the section is defeated. Such a fact inevitably reflects upon the capacity of the section-hands as leader in discussion; yet too often it is not their fault that they should fall...
Hotel at Coral Gables and has bathed it in the same sort of publicity which enabled one-man Henry L. Doherty & Co. to sell Cities Service securities to half a million people. From Manhattan the Florida Year-Round Club's special train runs weekly to the hotel with an orchestra, a gymnasium, a miniature pool for pretty girls in bathing suits, a hostess, a bridge professional. Some sport event is scheduled for almost every day of the season. Fortnight ago Oilman Doherty watched the best girl swimmers of the land. Last week he was official host...
...score was surprising to the Tigers. During the first two periods Tech presented a five-man defense which Princeton was unable to penetrate, and even when they did get through on 36 separate occasions, Milliken, who defended the nets, stopped the puck. The offense consisted solely of one-man dashes down...
...printed tabloid of 24 pages. It contains information about food, cinema, radio, fashions, cosmetics, also many illustrated jokes, fiction, advertising at $400 a page for separate units (Manhattan as one unit, Washington, Richmond, Baltimore as the others) or $700 a page for entire coverage. Such a compendium might be very sad were it not for the fact that Harry Evans writes most of the copy. It is a one-man magazine. He has a tremendous talent for making people like him, and among those who do are most of the nation's electric-lit names. He works hard...