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Famed as a disciplinarian, he took the unpopular post-War job of British High Commissioner to Egypt (1919-25). The thankless business of suppressing Egyptian riots is supposed to have lost him an earldom. A squarejawed, heavyset, vigorous man, he specialized in English and Spanish literature and in his collection of birds, live and dead. For special pets he had a war-horse called Hindenburg and a marabou stork...
...basic fault lies in the niggardly provision for but two assistants to examine over one hundred fifty men. This task in itself is overwhelming and naturally thankless, and its very enormity precludes any opportunity for personal attention, or the chance to spend either more or less time with certain students. With the outlook for an increased budget for next year extremely slim, the obvious solution is a return to the tried and tested system of hour examinations. These undoubtedly have their faults, but compared to the abject failure which the present system of "personal contact" has proven in History...
...effect of the Securities & Exchange Act upon Wall Street was a notable improvement in demand for margin clerks, that unsentimental class of brokerage house employes whose thankless task it is to keep tabs on customers' accounts. For the guidance of the Federal Reserve Board, which administers the credit end of Federal stockmarket control, Congress suggested a dual formula for fixing margin requirements which has been in effect since 1934. A broker could lend a customer the greater of either: 1) a flat percentage (now 45%) of a security's current market value; or 2) 100% of the lowest...
MISS WINSLOW, the executive secretary of the College Poetry Society of America, has compiled and edited an anthology for which new official duties have especially qualified her. She, if anybody, ought to know all the mute, inglorious young Miltons, male and female, who are strictly meditating the thankless Muse in college dormitories throughout the land. Her car is attuned to the squawking as well as the melody of the collegiate lyres on the campus. This book reveals both her knowledge and her sympathy. All the contributors are college men and women, but their interests, beyond that single tie of unity...
Handed the thankless task of replacing Douglas Fairbanks in D'Artagnan's floppy boots, Actor Walter Abel, in his Hollywood debut, seems a trifle more nervous than a swashbuckler should be. This is due less to his own shortcomings than to the curiosities of the story. Investigating the means whereby the Queen of France (Rosamond Pinchot) retrieves a brooch injudiciously entrusted to an English admirer, it reveals D'Artagnan as an incompetent young cavalier whose headlong efforts to combat an international intrigue are successful only because the villainess treats him with uncalled for generosity and because Athos...