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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Sir Auckland Geddes, Wartime Minister of National Service, onetime Ambassador to the U. S., did not tranquilize the atmosphere when he told British housewives that they ought to put some things away for a bomby day. Not only should they store food; they should also store water in bottles and jugs. In order not to upset the commodity markets, he said, they should buy very slowly and calmly. English housewives are literal-minded. Next day merchants reported sales of canned goods and water jugs falling...
...turn the headmaster into an executive charged with the training of his students to pass college boards, not to enter college with a foundation of wide, well-integrated knowledge. Grooved by his responsibility to the boys' parents, he is apt to operate his school like a clothing store, fitting out each student with the requisite apparel and giving him only the choice between a hat and earmuffs...
Like the Lundberg book, the Seldes book rambles, relies heavily on innuendo. It contains a large store of previously published facts, many a windy, publisher-baiting tirade. Mr. Ickes found considerable ammunition in it. Author Seldes, said Biologist Pearl last week, wrote him several times to find out about the "suppression" of his tobacco study, was told there was no suppression-yet indicated in Lords of the Press that the story had been suppressed...
...Namm (department) Store of Brooklyn, N. Y., announced that beginning February 1 all employes with one year's continuous service or more would be given minimum work guarantees. Affecting 90% of Namm's 1,300 workers, the plan will guarantee 40 weeks' work to employes of one year's standing, 52 weeks' work to five-year veterans...
...review was to have been held in criminal law, in which first year, law men take an examination Saturday, Jan, 28. Offering the review was the University Law Book Exchange, a book store near the University Theatre. Asked why they had given up their review, a spokesman for the book store said simply that they were "asked to give it up" by Professor Livingston Hall, who, with Professor Sheldon Glueck, is a criminal law instructor...