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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death in 1936 of Assistant Secretary Henry Latrobe Roosevelt (fourth of the blood to hold the office) enabled Franklin Roosevelt to put Charles Edison on the job. Recent naval history made it a formidable task. Post-War reaction against armaments in 1922 led the U. S. into the Washington (naval limitation) Treaty and a long naval sleep. Sailor Roosevelt woke up the country with a bang in 1933, dumped PWA funds into an emergency program, followed up with regular appropriations as soon as Depression I began to lift, has not let up during Depression II. On its Navy...
...Walter Albert Jessup, 61-year-old president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,* believes that U. S. .colleges are too big and too bad. Each year, in his report for the Foundation, he offers fresh facts to prove his point. Last year he took colleges to task for buying tuba players with scholarships (TIME, Feb. 14, 1938). Last week Dr. Jessup led off the Foundation's 33rd annual report by giving the rough side of his tongue to another growing evil: tramp scholars...
...thrown into the organization of the team this week as both Burce Richardson and Pete Illman found that they are unable to wrestle. This means that the team which was in a position to gain a little more poise from their last meet is once more faced with the task of introducing inexperienced wrestlers in varsity competition...
...that the psychological, juridical, and social aspects of the problem are considered. To this end, the services of men from the medical, law, and other graduate schools must be enlisted. But the Sociology Department is the logical executor of the course; it is best suited to the task of coordinating the various aspects and bringing them into a logical whole. Only when this is done will marriage instruction be raised from the level of a bull session, a matter for ridicule, to the position which is actually warranted by its importance...
...sister calls him Christlike, last week named the man to run his new Civil Liberties Unit: Henry A. Schweinhaut, the special assistant who prosecuted civil-liberties violations in Harlan County, Ky. and in Jersey City. Besides protecting liberty's delicate flower, Mr. Murphy last week received the grubbier task of rooting evil weeds out of the Federal judiciary...