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Audiences never tire of talking about Britain's No. 1 conductor. His father was Sir Joseph Beecham, an amateur veterinarian who made a fortune with patent pills, earned a baronetcy with his many philanthropies and still left plenty for his son to squander on music. Sir Thomas once went bankrupt for the sake of music in England. At a conservative estimate his losses have amounted to over...
...hotels, for which tourists are charged $15 per day, were being occupied free by nondescript persons of both sexes, of every race and all colors. The last Chairman of the Comintern was the famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," shaggy Comrade Grigory Zinoviev. In 1926 thrifty Joseph Stalin decided to squander less Soviet gold on Communists abroad and Chairman Zinoviev, huffing and puffing, resigned from the Comintern. To day, since Stalin has broken not only with Zinoviev but also with Trotsky, who should be groomed in Moscow last week for election by the Congress this week as Chairman of the Comintern...
...arranged with the goal of College Board Examinations in view. The blighting influence of this goal atrophies all attempts to introduce training beyond the strict limits of requirements. When the competence of a teacher is judged by his pupils' success in the examinations, he can hardly afford to squander time on material not included in the College Board syllabus. Thus, instead of education, the whole apparatus of cramming flourishes. Instructors find outlines of the questions in their subject for the past ten, fifteen, or twenty-five years more useful than treatises on the subject itself...
...secondly, what changes should be made in secondary school theories to adapt themselves to such an innovation? There is undoubtedly a large portion of the student body who will not shoulder their new burdens. Those men who are at College solely to have a good time will continue to squander away the year from an educational standpoint and will rely even more strongly on tutoring schools before the mid-year and final examinations. If this group falls by the wayside, however, it is no indication the plan has not succeeded, for it is highly probable that no system...
...back of the Depression," the President wrote, "cannot be broken by any single government undertaking. That can only be done with the co-operation of business, banking, industry and agriculture in conjunction with the government. . . . We cannot squander ourselves into prosperity. . . . What is needed is the return of confidence and a capital market through which credit will flow in the thousand rills with its result of employment and increased prices. . . . Such a program as the huge Federal loans for 'public works' is a fearful price to pay in putting a few thousand men temporarily at work." Setting forth...