Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From one point of view, Joe Kennedy is a common denominator of the U. S. businessman - "safe," "middle-of-the-road," a horse-trader at heart, with one sharp eye on the market and one fond eye on his children. But he is a super common denominator, uncommonly commonsensible, stiletto-shrewd, practical as only a former president of a small bank can be. As Ambassador Kennedy his attitude is the same as that of Businessman Kennedy: Where...
Most colleges stop worrying about a student when he flunks out. But at that point University of Minnesota's General College begins. Flunks worry General College because they are so numerous: half of all U. S. undergraduates flunk out of college. General College believes that, if this large group cannot become competent doctors, lawyers or engineers, at least they must be made competent citizens. After seven years the college is still seeking a formula for turning out good citizens,* but last week it reported progress: it had determined by a prodigious piece of research what a college graduate...
...keep the radio audience hep to devious military movements and tactics. NBC had cornered General Hugh Johnson's spare time. CBS had Major R. Ernest Dupuy, old New York Herald man, World War veteran, author (If War Comes, with Major George Fielding Eliot), and West Point's public relations officer. MBS got Major Kent C. Lambert from Fort Jay, onetime exchange officer with the Polish Army. But last week, almost as soon as war began, all three went out of action...
...luckless Pilot Musick's place, was tough, tanned oldtimer Captain John Tilton; in her vasty belly a ten-man crew, 18 assorted observers. Some 17 hours later in Honolulu she stopped briefly, knuckled down to the remaining hops. Last week, seven days, some 7,500 miles from starting point, she taxied across Auckland, New Zealand's handsome, big harbor, fit as a fiddle, her test passed 100%. Proudly wired Pilot Tilton: "We received a warm and enthusiastic greeting from our friends 'down under' who welcomed the California Clipper as a precursor of an air service putting...
...Chairman Jerome Frank's suggestion for a brokerage bank for customers' cash and free securities, a special Stock Exchange Board turned thumbs down. Its alternative: a 14-point program for completion of the Exchange's extensive self-policing policy...