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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing to survey the veterans' problem from a cold statistical viewpoint, but quite something else to know intimately the history of hundreds of cases affected by regulations issued under this law and to observe the wholesale injustices worked thereby. Special Review boards which considered the presumptive cases would have had a light task had they been concerned only with ''injuries not even remotely connected with...
...veteran, but not as yet a disabled one, and hence not personally affected by this legislation. My service on the Special Review board in Arizona, however, gave me, and would give any fair-minded man, the conviction that justice to the disabled and deserving veterans as a class was not possible under the regulations adopted...
...shell. Pressure of air blown in forces the egg's contents out of the hole. If incubation has begun, fine scissors are used to hash the embryo so it will pass out. - ED. Guggenheims & Robber Barons Sirs: In the issue of TIME for March 5 . . . there appears a review of my book, The Robber Barons, and in the closing paragraph thereof the following statement about me: ". . . He wrote The Robber Barons on a fellowship made possible by money from the Guggenheim family - plutocrats not included in his book...
...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He worked on the New York Life building, the Roerich Museum and built a home for himself at Bronxville, N. Y. with no heating arrangements on the second floor because Mr. Coyle believes that people should sleep in very cold rooms. Just before joining the technical review board of PWA, he had finished planting a nut farm in New Jersey. Laurence Todd is known to Washington newspapermen as a Social Registerite, has served for 14 years as Washington correspondent for Federated (labor) Press. He has recently become U. S. representative for Tass, official Soviet newsgathering organization...
...town wits and art critics. Installed early last month in the Center's plaza was a huge gilt Paul Manship statue of Prometheus poised in a swimming pose on a mound and encircled by a ring carved with zodiacal symbols. Last week Essayist Christopher Morley in the Saturday Review of Literature wrote of it thus: "I am appalled by the Yiddish Hurdler on the new terrace of Rockefeller City. Under those glorious perpendiculars . . . this gesticulating gigolo in gilt. Besides he is just as immoral as the banished Lenin for the only possible interpretation is that he is escaping from...