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Viceroy Linlithgow may fulfill these duties either by creating a genuinely self-ruling British India or by perpetuating British rule by force. In the latter case, the new Constitution provides such increased outlets for Indian discontent as provincial cabinets and provincial legislatures elected by 14% of the native adult population. Viceroy Linlithgow retains such absolute powers as the right to overrule single-handed his own executive council and to veto laws passed by the Indian Legislature if he chooses to think they "affect the safety or tranquillity of British India...
Although the 66th annual and special Tercentenary session of the Harvard Summer School has been dedicated principally to adult education, students will find wide opportunities to study under non-Harvard, American professors and under European and Eastern...
Milwaukee's 107 superbly equipped and managed schools provide ordinary, vocational and leisure education for every citizen over 4 years of age. It claims the biggest & best part-time vocational school in the world, the nation's largest municipally-owned educational museum, the largest per-capita adult night-school enrollment in the U. S. It has a magnificent system of 67 city parks, 68 city playgrounds, 21 city social centres, produces outdoor opera, maintains free bathing beaches, operates dance halls in the parks, uses 47 of its school buildings every night for drama clubs, bridge games, chess tournaments...
...most valuable newspaper properties in the U. S. His daily "poem" for the Detroit Free Press is syndicated in some 200 U. S. papers. But the monetary return therefrom is probably less valuable to the Free Press than the cachet of having employed Guest all his adult life, a fact of which the paper's promotion department never loses sight...
Assuming that all the 75,000,000 adult inhabitants of the U. S. could be induced to buy admission to a birthday ball, tickets would have to be priced at $10 a head to raise the $550,000,000 required to pay for the New Deal's AAA substitute and the $200,000,000 in processing taxes ordered refunded by the Supreme Court. To raise the $2,250,000,000 required to pay the Bonus, there would have to be another birthday ball with tickets at $30 a head. The gentlemen in the President's office had, however...