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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Luck, the Federal income tax, and the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes did not combine in astronomical figures for any member of the University who was doing his bit for charity, but five persons under the name of "The Harvard Syndicate" are each $100 richer today...
...American Airways proved to itself that "the bigger the airplane is the more efficient it can be made." The P. A. A. began to eye the Atlantic and ran into the toughest competition in its history. Europe's crack lines, Deutsche Lufthansa, Air France and Imperial Airways-all richer than P. A. A. because their Governments directly subsidize them-had plans for the same ocean. But none had over-ocean passenger planes. Three years ago P. A. A. called for ships that would fly the route, pay their way. Last week Seattle's big Boeing Aircraft Co. answered...
...success of a democracy depends upon the education of its people. . . . By education I do not mean technical training. Nothing can ever replace the well rounded cultural education which alone can form the basis for a full life and sound political judgment. . . . America today is materially richer than any civilization has perhaps ever been, but we are spiritual paupers and no one can deny...
...description of itself the Farmer's Wife ran in a series of lively advertising promotion ads in the New Yorker last fall. No newsstands carry the Farmer's Wife but it goes through the mail anywhere at $1 for three years. Circulation teams of women scour the richer byways for more readers. Six field editors, including Bess M. Rowe, who probably knows personally more farm women than anyone else in the U. S., constantly circulate over 100,000 rural miles each year, keeping Managing Editor F. W. Beckman in touch with his readers. A sort of countrified Delineator...
Perhaps the most definite statement of Dr. Conant's ideas came Monday when he addressed the Harvard Club at Kansas City. The poor child should have equal educational opportunities with the richer ones, he said...