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...continued increase in reading ability of each successive entering class has necessitated continued upgrading of the freshman reading course, according to John W. Wideman, assistant in the Bareau of Study Counsel...
...reading class, which Wideman called a course in "examsmanship," is an elective, non-credit offering. Since the course is again over-subscribed, students with low scores on the annual reading test have been given preference...
...Wideman stated that the test results also indicate that entering freshmen are increasingly "liberal" in their attitudes toward studies. He contrasted this attitude with "authoritarianism," or the feeling that there is just "one right answer" to every question...
...Wideman. For "impelling business reasons," Francis James Wideman of West Palm Beach sent the President his resignation as Assistant Attorney General. With the resignation went a memorandum from Attorney General Cummings pointing out that Mr. Wideman had won ten of the eleven cases he argued last year before the Supreme Court. Although the case which he lost was the AAA decision, there came back a note: "This record of Wideman is grand! Congratulate...
Jackson. To take Mr. Wideman's place, Attorney General Cummings snaffled one of the brightest of the New Deal's young lawyers from the Treasury Department: Robert Houghwout Jackson, the Bureau of Internal Revenue's Assistant General Counsel. Rated the No. 1 prosecutor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, this Jamestown, N. Y. attorney had personal charge of the Government's attempt to collect $3,000,000 of additional taxes from Andrew William Mellon (TIME, April 15 et ante...