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...Senate witness, "I think that if the housemother has to do all the cooking and all the washing and bring up a family of five children besides, she won't have time to educate the children. ... By the leisure class I mean the families who employ one servant, 25,000,000 or 30,000,000 families...
...premonitions. Partner Morgan's opinions on the leisure class were kidded on the front pages of newspapers from coast to coast. Some editors pointed out that in 1930 there were less than 30,000,000 families in the U. S., all of which by no means had one servant. Others dug up the fact that there were less than 2,000,000 cooks and servants listed by the 1930 census. The Associated Press quoted Mrs. Wilbur Fribley of Chicago, president of the Housewives League of America: "Does the woman active in business or social service as a lawyer, doctor...
...Spanish-born parents met in the Philippine Islands. His mother's first marriage was to George Sturgis, Boston merchant with offices in Manila, to whom she had borne five children at the time of his death. When she married Agustin Ruiz de Santayana, retired Spanish civil servant, it was with the understanding that the Sturgis children were to be brought up in Boston, as she had promised their father before he died. The family was thus separated, George Santayana remaining with his father in Spain, his mother and her older children moving to Boston, an arrangement that was "friendly...
...sensuous joy of living under the influence of the sea, of sport, of life on the lovely ship. But as he awakens to the world, Oliver also becomes aware of depths of mystery and misery that lie beneath the summer surface of reality. His father's companion and servant is Jim Darnley, engaging, unscrupulous, intelligent Englishman who has left the British Navy as a result of some queer scandal. Attracted by Jim's robust enjoyment of nature, weary of his own brooding conscience, Oliver still cannot free his mind of questions of right and wrong, is offended when...
...course will probably embrace studies in city planning, public health, budget making, sanitary engineering, public housing and other topics vital to the general welfare which the public servant is supposed to serve. It should make an important contribution to the practicability of college training. Oklahoma Daily