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...education, like the Supreme Court, follows the election returns. In God fearing Colonial days, U. S. school readers were pious; later, in the era of industrial expansion, they glorified industry and thrift. Last week was published a new type of school reading book that appeared to mark off another period in U. S. history. Its theme was not religious, not economic, but political. Born of the U. S. people's chief present concern-alarm at dictatorship's threat-these readers were entitled Democracy Readers.* If democracy can be taught from a book, the U. S. should soon...
...Other, luckier maidens, steal at dusk to vantage points near geisha-houses, machiai (waiting-houses) and licensed prostitute quarters, and there scribble down the automobile license plates of bloods who waste their money during the national emergency. Sometimes, when the young scalawags arrive by taxi, the guardians of national thrift have to slip right inside the house to get a good look at who is misbehaving-and for how much...
...money about in the cafes geisha houses, bars and dance halls of Shanghai, the yen's fall meant that gaiety would become more expensive. Japanese officials began asking their nationals not to spend their yen in the International Settlement and the Japanese-sponsored Asia Development Board began a "thrift" campaign to cut down on "entertainment...
...years in Congress, well knows that the President's taunt in his last annual message was a safe one, when he ironically asked whether Congress would like to economize on WPA relief, PWA projects, pensions or payrolls. More bitterly John Garner, life-long preacher and practitioner of thrift, feels that Economy is impossible so long as "that man is in the White House." To the President he says: "There'll be no economy unless you lead...
Fidelity Investment Association is one of the largest U. S. "thrift plans." has sold $600,000,000 worth of its contract certificates on the installment plan in its history. Shortly before Christmas SEC charged Fidelity with something less than fidelity to its 60.000 investors. Publishing untrue statements, not maintaining required statutory reserves, writing up book value of securities, using investors' funds for the benefit of its officers-such were SEC's accusations (TIME...