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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sheriff Curtiss of Flemington added the last "s" to his name after Boatbuilder Curtis's conviction. For weeks newspapermen have grumbled at the price this official put upon his good nature. Last week Governor Moore strongly rebuked him for accepting "donations" from newshawks at the standard rate of $10 for a downstairs seat or $5 for an upstairs seat at the trial. Sheriff Curtiss righteously protested that the "donations" were to be used for "fixing up" the courthouse for the trial. The Governor took the starch out of this protest by revealing that New Jersey had already appropriated...
...college president welcomed such a proving ground for his own progressive ideas, took an active part in the founding. From nearby Williams, Professor Robert Devore Leigh was called to be president. Only two and one-half years old now, Bennington still has no fourth-year class. Its tuition rate is $1,000, highest college rate in the country, but girls who cannot pay that price may get secret reductions. There are few classes, fewer class lectures, practically no examinations. Each student spends her first two years in the Junior Division, sampling the most vital sectors of several fields of study...
...years the army has been keeping close track of suicides among its officers and enlisted men. During the long dull years of peace the suicide rate tends to climb higher & higher in the service until a war comes and soldiers stop killing themselves. Just before the Spanish-American War army suicides reached a record high, only to drop away to almost nothing during the fighting. The same trend was discernible before the World...
...among the jobless. Hence, in final draft, the conference recommended reductions of Federal relief expenditures, the return of relief to the states as far as practical; declared public works undertaken for the sole object of providing jobs as wasteful; advised that work relief pay should be lower than the rate paid by industry, to encourage private reemployment...
...General promptly closeted himself in Manhattan to write his memoirs for which, it was said, he would receive the highest word-rate ever paid a onetime public official. They were scheduled to appear first as a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post, later in book form. Friends of Friend Richberg saw the manuscript, rushed to him with alarming tales of what Friend Johnson had written about him. By last week Lawyer Richberg was so wrought up that he released to the Press a letter he had written to Satevepost Editor George Horace Lorimer...