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...study began in 1932, when 300 liberal arts colleges gave the Progressive Education Association a green light to experiment by agreeing to admit graduates of 30 Progressive schools without the usual entrance requirements. The 30 schools, ranging from Denver's public high schools to Massachusetts' swank Milton Academy, eventually delivered four classes (1936 to 1939) to the colleges. A staff of impartial college judges paired each of 1,475 Progressive students with a conventional-school graduate of the same intelligence, sex, age, interests, family background...
...problem of Washington's grotesque wartime crowding, President Roosevelt gave his press conference a half-serious suggestion: if the "parasites" would leave-those who had 20-room houses on swank Massachusetts Avenue,* those who were in Washington only for social reasons, those who had no real wartime duties-there would be a lot more room...
...brought Mr. Davies (then Ambassador to Belgium) and his wife home from Antwerp. Before that, when Mr. Davies was Ambassador to Russia, the yacht was moored in Leningrad's harbor. Before he took the Sea Cloud to Communist Russia, Mr. Davies was somewhat fearful that such capitalist swank might trouble the proletarian waters. He said as much to Russian Foreign Minister Molotov. "Of course, bring her over," said Molotov. "But would she be safe from sabotage?" persisted Mr. Davies. "Sabotage?" said Mr. Molotov. "Why, she'd be safer here from sabotage than she would be in New York...
...Manhattan's swank Abercrombie & Fitch is buying & selling secondhand English saddles, shotguns, field glasses, revolvers, because it can get no new ones...
Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michi gan advocated a Spartan wartime diet for Congress: "cornmeal mush and a baked potato without butter or even milk gravy." He hoped aloud that Congressmen would be "first to lose their tubes, their tires, their automobiles, their cocktails and their dinners at the swank hotels...