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Since Cheops let the contracts for the building of the pyramids, there has been no such juicy piece of pap as the job of reorganizing the $1,000,000,000 Associated Gas and Electric system, which fell into the bankruptcy courts Jan. 10. Biggest reorganization in history, it involves a utility empire that sprawls over 27 States, has contacts with 54 Senators, 307 Representatives, brigades of State legislators, spends around $94,000,000 a year on coal, wages, construction, supplies. Sure to stay in court for years, it will provide jobs for several trustees (not unusual price...
...been slashed to $1,615,000,000 in the Senate (TIME, July 24, et seq.). In Franklin Roosevelt's biggest legislative defeat yet, the House refused (193-167) even to consider the bill. This was the first time a Roosevelt Congress had turned down pap and pork...
...White House switchboard checked up recently, learned that James Roosevelt picked up the telephone 150 times a day. Congressmen who want Administration support for bills, projects, pap, or patronage have learned that the most direct route to the Presidential ear is through Son James, whose long legs carry him across the reception room to his father's office in something less than 30 seconds...
...over the United States today." Discussing laborers, Sol philosophized: "I believe the wage earner is more extravagant . . . than the millionaire." As a first step in the direction of improved relations with his radical-minded miners, Dan launched a company union newspaper announcing editorially that "this is greatest era of pap, piffle and poison the world has ever seen." But solid old Meyer, who used to warn his sons that "roasted pigeons do not fly into one's mouth, easily set the record for Guggenheim picturesqueness. Sued at age 77, shortly before his death, by 45-year-old Hanna McNamara...
Such reviews cannot drive tutoring schools to the wall, for they will not "spot" questions or feed students strained pap. That is not their purpose. But they can, if properly organized, perform an important and legitimate function--one sometimes provided by tutoring schools--that of crystallizing knowledge and remedying some of the notorious defects of Harvard's course instruction...