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...incoming Congress will vote as they drink, they will legalize beer. I am talking from an economic viewpoint. If the law is revised there will be from 1,000,000 to 1,200,000 men employed in breweries within six months. Putting that number of men to work???think what it will mean to other industries...
...selfhelp. Sixth formers use "the Pater's" study as their club. When they sit listening to his slow, deep voice they feel the worth of the responsibility he assigns them as prefects, as supervisors of the two daily "Job Assemblies," where they see to it that the school's work???scrubbing, window-washing, leaf-raking, everything but cooking?is performed properly. Four or five times a term a whole form gets a holiday, goes out to work on the school farm (one of Connecticut's finest) or to unload a carload of coal?anything that needs to be done...
Religious Groups. Although lay agencies in large measure have taken benevolence away from the churches, certain religious groups met with the National Conference of Social Work???The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the National Conference on Social Work of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the National Conference of Jewish Social Service, the Commissions on Social Welfare of the Universalist General Convention. Bishop Francis John McConnell (Methodist), president of the Federal Council, was a potent churchman attending. Said he: "This age is not doing much with the Ten Commandments, but it is discovering a good deal for itself...
Ruth v. Ruppert. After bickering all winter, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New York Yankees, offered moonfaced, ball-slugging outfielder George Herman ("Babe") Ruth $160,000 for two years' work???his last word. Ruth's "last" word: He would not work two years for less than $170,000?he would rather retire. Next day, Colonel and slugger met in the Princess Martha Hotel in St. Petersburg, went into the Colonel's room. Ten minutes later the Colonel opened the door. "It's all settled?Ruth accepts...
...national questions can command national attention and respect (see p. 16), Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, 83, continued last week a living though not a lively man, plodding on with life's-end work in his Fort Myers, Fla., winter laboratory. Whether or not he lives to accomplish his latest work???finding a new source of rubber?he had lived to see a semi-official national celebration of his first great work???last summer's Golden Jubilee of Light (TIME...