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World War II has increased the world's previous refugee problems by many times. Out of Germany, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia keep streaming thousands of helpless, penniless Jews and Gentiles seeking safer, happier homes. Refugee committees have been swamped...
...suggestive art of America's leading mental stripteaser (Mae West) with the comic talents of one of the funniest men on earth (W. C. Fields). Together they make a comedy which is more hilarious than its grab-bag plot about a fancy lady, whose efforts to roll a penniless hair-oil salesman are insufficiently supported by good gags, has any right to be. It also suffers less than usual from the tendency of Comedienne West (who yearns to play Catherine the Great) to take herself too seriously...
Function of the State Health Service is to prevent epidemics, not to treat sore throats, broken ankles, pellagra or appendicitis. Until 1938, penniless migrants were left to doctor such maladies themselves. But after the fierce winter floods, the Farm Security Administration offered to finance a system of community medical care which would give the migrants free doctoring, medicines and hospital care, pay local physicians reasonable amounts for their services. Joining with representatives of the California Medical Association, and Dr. Dickie, FSA formed the Agricultural Workers Health and Medical Association, only Government-supported "panel system...
Since then, ten or twelve penniless New York City boys have been chosen (by examinations) each year for the scholarships-$250 a year for four years (plus free tuition if they go to Columbia University). All told, 551 boys (mostly sons of immigrants) were chosen. In these boys a round $1,000,000 was invested. A Columbia Pulitzer Scholar, Harry Schwartz,, having investigated to see what 50 years of the Pulitzer scholarships had produced, now shows that Chauncey Depew talked through his top hat. Having tracked down 268 of the 366 living Pulitzer graduates, he reported...
...been mistaken about that document. Instead of establishing an unrestricted fund to encourage debating, as had long been supposed, the will provided that the sum was to be entirely devoted to prizes for outstanding debaters. The Corporation promptly enforced this provision, and the Harvard University Debating Council found itself penniless...