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...while president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. John D. Sherman wrote 24 magazine articles on home equipment and kindred topics. Last week the Federal Trade Commission, investigating activities of public utilities companies, discovered that Mrs. Sherman had received $600 apiece for these articles. The payer was the National Electric Light Association, publicity organization for U. S. power companies. Testifying before the commission, Mrs. Sherman said that from 1924 to 1928 the N. E. L. A. had contributed $80,000 to the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Last week the Federation Directors de cided...
...Hoover's favorite word). Also, patience and discretion will be required in large quantities to discriminate between public works needed now, public works needed tomorrow, and public works which will never be needed at all. The last category -joy of the pork barrel experts, sorrow of the tax-payer-is what will be watched out against by hard-headed businessmen who may suspect the job reserve idea of being "utopian...
...give my divorced wife 10,000 francs a month [$400]," said M. Caillaux, "I am probably the largest alimony payer in France. Yet, consider. What I give is but a present to her. The Court only ordered a fraction of that amount...
...commission has been considering a survey of the school system for several weeks, particularly with reference to school expenditures. The upkeep of the schools in Boston takes a great share of the tax payer's dollar, and it will be Professor Cummings' task to determine the cost of surveying every part of the Boston school system, its expenditures and defects, with the hope that it may be corrected...
...irritating way of everlastingly singing the praises of successful millionaires?because of the possession of their millions. Despite the logic of his Scottish sermonizing style he has not succeeded in educating us "U. S. wage earners," as you put it, to the viewpoint of the wage-payer, or vice versa...