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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give the gentleman my seat." ¶ Observed with further distaste efforts by Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much. If a worker is shown by the so-called "means test" to have more than an absolute minimum of income he cannot draw dole payments from the State. Year after year Jock McGovern asks to have what the State pays the Royal Family readjusted in the light of their income from investments. Cried Jock last week, "No means test is applied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parliament's Week: The Commons: | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...personage than Guglielmo Marconi stirred up a pother, which faded away when Marconi himself squelched it. Last week another exciting ray story cropped up in dispatches from Berkeley, Calif, which produced such headlines as NEW LETHAL RAY HURLED BY MAGNET, and NEW DEATH RAY TO AID MANKIND BEGINS ITS TEST...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Particle Protection | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

Having seen the New Deal bungle in selection of cases to test the constitutionality of some of its other measures, friends of the National Labor Relations Act passed by Congress last July were on the alert for a test case which would let the Government put its best foot foremost. Last October, Associated Press abruptly discharged one of its Manhattan staffmen named Morris Watson, explained that after seven years it was "dissatisfied with his services." Newsman Watson countercharged that AP had violated the Labor Act by firing him because he was a vice president of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Guild v. AP | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...views of Mr. Hearst, everything cannot be classified, purely and simply, into black and white. The line between unscrupulosity and honesty in Tutoring Bureau ethics, even the expert philosophers would find difficulty in drawing. But clearly, the practice of offering help in writing a paper which is intended to test and stimulate original thought lies in the company of theme writing and "doing it for a friend" beyond the lousy waters of the Styx...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S FIFTH ESTATE | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...courses whose practical value is obvious. This course, devoted to the art of public appealing, is of especial value to the man who expects to take an active place in the business and professional world. Here, with all the paraphernalia of phonographical recordings of his voice, actual dinners to test out the principles of good after dinner speaking, and instructors trained to detect flaws in the student's method of preparing a speech and in the technique of his delivery, a man is enabled in the short space of half a year, if not to make a perfect public speaker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

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