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...promotions. "But the source of this degree is not always a serious concern to those who give it, or to those who get it . . . A disturbing result . . . is that holders of good degrees from reputable institutions, are more and more confused with holders of less reputable or even worthless degrees." In the South in particular, reported the Southern educator, graduate work is in chaos, with some colleges and normal schools even inventing new degrees in the fierce competition for tuition fees from graduate students...
Family Farms. If the Bureau of Reclamation has its way, the settlers will not be fleeced by land speculators. Large landowners will not be forced to sell, but if they want the bureau's water (financed by U.S. taxpayers) on their almost worthless dry land, they must "join the project." Then each may have water for, at most, 160 acres, provided that they sell the rest of their land at the appraised dry-land price, about $7.50 per acre. This is the price that the settlers will pay, and they may not resell at a higher price for five...
...Hero MacArthur today held General Eisenhower's assignment, he would be screaming for us to negotiate any kind of peace with Red China and pull out of the completely worthless Korean peninsula and rush every division to our really important and strategic outpost, Western Europe. But being a good soldier, Eisenhower obeys orders and stays out of party politics. All credit...
...everyone of them happily answered that it is now much better. Their main reasons are that there are no more fears of starving the next day; and that they can feel that the money they earn is really trustworthy. Before, the money they earned in the morning might be worthless in the afternoon. Also they didn't know when a Kuomintang officer would suddenly come along and drag them into the army, leaving their families to starve. (There is no military conscription at present.) I have gone to various villages, and although the little children often have dirty faces, they...
...expressed, the Russians had become a society of mockers: "The slave . . . consoles himself for his yoke by quietly making fun of it." From the highest noble to the lowest serf, all Russians were equally in fear of the regime's power; all human life was equally worthless in the rule of terror...